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Kathy 20th August 2010 |
The United States is electing more and more women to office. It is about time. Perhaps when we have a majority of women in office, we can clean up the mess the males have made of things. It certainly could not be any worse. Also the more women are able to get an education, the more it does show that women CAN do everything a male can do....only better. |
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Ian Graham Staff Editor 16th May 2005 |
A majority of Kuwait’s all-male parliament passed a law on May 16 granting women the right to vote and run in elections for the first time. Thirty-five voted in favor, 23 against and one abstained in a vote that had met fierce resistance from Islamists and conservative tribal members of parliament. The Kuwait government wanted the bill passed before the prime minister takes a trip to Washington, which will likely happen next month. Parliament met to discuss a bill limited to allowing women to participate in municipal elections. But the government asked the house for an urgent vote on granting full political rights to women instead. Islamist and conservative lawmakers narrowly defeated a similar women's rights decree issued in 1999. The prime minister said women could be appointed to the 15-member cabinet, but women activists criticized the passing of the bill as being too late for women to vote and run for local elections Islamist MPs added a clause stipulating women must abide by Islamic Sharia rules when voting or running for office. MPs and women activists said doing so could cause burdens such as requiring separate polling stations for men and women. |
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Ian Graham Staff Editor 5th April 2005 |
The Kuwaiti parliament was due to debate a bill in March that proposed granting women full political rights. The bill, already approved by the country’s cabinet, would allow women to vote and run for election. It is backed by the Islamist Umma Party, the first Sunni Muslim group in Kuwait to endorse women’s suffrage. A previous attempt to grant women the right to vote was rejected by the country’s male-dominated parliament in 1999. In Kuwait’s political system, a majority of the 50-member National Assembly are elected for four-year terms by about 15 percent of the population, while the prime minister and cabinet are chosen by the monarch. The country’s next parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in 2007. |
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