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Kristín S. Hjälmtýsdóttir is the Secretary General of the Icelandic Red Cross. She joined the movement in 2015.
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Iceland, 2015

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Only 24.3% of all national parliamentarians were women as of February 2019, a slow increase from 11.3% in 1995.

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