Article: Muslim women to be trained for public office.

M2 PRESSWIRE-9 March 2009-UK Government: Muslim women to be trained for public office(C)1994-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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The Muslim Women's Advisory group have today kicked off a project to get more Muslim Women' involved in politics.

There are at least 800,000 Muslim women living in Britain today but they are under-represented in positions of influence in British civic society including roles such as school governors and local councillors. The Muslim Women's Advisory Group therefore wants to provide the support to increase the skills, knowledge, and confidence, of Muslim women to enable more to seek positions in civic society and ...

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