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# Our voices: Women's political participation
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/our-voices-womens-political-participa/
- Published: 2013-03-07T11:03:21.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-23T00:04:06.000Z
- Description: Film: In this series of short films Burundian women look at key issues in the wake of the civil war, which ended in 2005. More than 1 million Burundians were internally displaced or forced to flee the country as a result of the 12-year civil conflict which killed over 300,000 people.
- Author: Régine Nishimagizwe
- Tags: Africa, #Migrated, Conflict & security, Security in Sub-Saharan Africa, Peacebuilding from a southern perspective, Peacebuilding, Burundi, 50.50 Our Africa, conflict, #en, #Import 2026-04-09 16:28, #appended-excerpt

[Our Voices - Women's Political Participation](http://vimeo.com/61088402?ref=opendemocracy.net) from [International Alert](http://vimeo.com/internationalalert?ref=opendemocracy.net) on [Vimeo](http://vimeo.com/?ref=opendemocracy.net).

Burundi has one of the highest allocations of seats in parliament for women, numbering 36% of all MPs. There is also a 30% quota policy for women's political participation at lower levels of the administration.  
  
Despite this progress, women's voices are not always heard.

**Film**: In this series of short films Burundian women look at key issues in the wake of the civil war, which ended in 2005\. More than 1 million Burundians were internally displaced or forced to flee the country as a result of the 12-year civil conflict which killed over 300,000 people.