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GENEVA， March 7 (Xinhua) -- While lauding the progress made over the last decade， an Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) report warned Tuesday that more measures are needed to increase the representation of women in parliaments globally.


According to statistics， the global average of women in national parliaments stood at 23.3 percent at the end of 2016， up from 22.6 percent two years ago.


This figure is a significant improvement from ten years ago， when women only accounted for 16.8 percent of parliamentary seats.


"We must seize the opportunity to build on the successes of recent years because hard-won progress can often be fragile and readily lost， particularly at a time when engaging in politics has become ever more challenging，" IPU secretary general Martin Chungong said in a statement.


"Parliaments are crucial to ensuring women are among the world's most high-profile leaders and to strengthening the policies and legislation needed to meet the goal of gender equality and women's full and equal participation at all levels by 2030，" he added.


The report highlighted that gains were documented across major regions， with the Pacific topping the list with a 1.6 percent increase in women in parliament (17.4 percent by the end of 2016).


Lower gains were also recorded in Europe and the Americas (both 0.9 percent)， Arab States and Asia (both 0.5 percent)， and sub-Saharan Africa (0.4 percent).


IPU said that "quotas" remain an effective tool to make sure that more women are involved in politics， while ensuring a minimum level of women's representation in parliament.


The shortfall of such quotas， however， is that they seldom go beyond the "critical mass" of 30 to 35 percent of women's seats in parliament， IPU explained.


In light of this， IPU urged countries to adopt more ambitious measures so as to achieve gender-parity in all levels by 2030.


LONDON cheap air max 90 online , Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- The number of British people enjoyingforeign holidays is the highest since the financial crash, theOffice for National Statistics (ONS) said Monday.


But in the last 20 years British tourists have turned theirbacks on traditional two-week holidays in favor of short breaks andweek-long trips, said ONS.


British residents went on more than 45 million foreign holidaysin 2016, up from 27 million in 1996, a 68 percent rise.


Another big change seen by ONS is the drop in the number ofso-called "booze cruises" across the English Channel.


Thousands of people used to make the day-trips to France tostock up on cheaper alcohol.


The numbers started to fall after 1999 when duty-free saleswithin the European Union ended cheap air max online , coupled with prices for cigarettesin France also rising.


The arrival of budget airlines has also led to sky-high numbersof British tourists heading to tourism hotspots across Europe, saidONS.


In the two decades since 1996 the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)said passenger numbers at British airports increased by 85 percent,from 135 million to 251 million, with half using the budgetcarriers.


"Around 50 percent of the traffic on low-cost carriers is newlygenerated, which means half of the people flying on budget airlinesin Europe weren't making those journeys before cheap nike air max 90 outlet ," said ONS.


At the same time, the number of people making sea crossings toEurope has fallen by 33 percent, with more opting to flyinstead,


ONS said not a lot has changed at the top of the destinationchart over the past 20 years, with Spain and France staying in thetwo top spots.


"While the number of holidays to Spain has rocketed by 87percent in 20 years cheap nike air max outlet , France is one of the few countries we'revisiting less than we were in 1996 with the number falling by 9percent," said ONS.


Germany has now joined the top 10 destinations for Britishholidaymakers, and another new entry is cruising along Europe'sfamous rivers, now four times as popular as it was 20 yearsago.


Two destinations that have dropped out of the top 10 since 1996are Belgium and Turkey.


Holidays to third placed Italy and fourth place Portugal haveboth more than doubled since 1996, with the only non-Europeandestination in the top 10 cheap air max 90 outlet , the United States, in fifth place.


Further down the rankings, the countries that have seen amassive percentage increase in British tourists are the United ArabEmirates (UAE), heading towards 600,000 a year compared to around25 cheap air max outlet ,000 in 1996, and Poland, also exceeding more than half a milliontourists from Britain.


ONS said the big rise in tourism to the UAE is largely due tothe popularity of Dubai, where there has been heavy investment inhotels and shopping malls.


And if there is any truth in the saying, every cloud has asilver lining cheap nike air max 90 clearance , Iceland's success proves the point, said ONS.


Iceland's newfound popularity is less straightforward toexplain, said ONS, with a rise in the numbers of Britishholidaymakers beginning around 2010, just two years after theeconomic crisis devalued the Icelandic krona cheap nike air max clearance , making the countrymuch more affordable for foreign tourists.


But a volcano could also have played a part in explaining thesecret of Iceland's tourism boom.


ONS explained: "2010 was also the year that the volcanoEyjafjallajokull erupted, sending clouds of ash into the skiesabove Europe and grounding planes across the world. Some think thatthe TV pictures of Iceland shown around the globe encouragedvisitors to go there." Enditem


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