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Saturday, February 02, 2013
Report / White Paper
Strong voices: Yemeni Women's Political Participation from Protest to Transition
Based on focus group discussions with women from different backgrounds in Aden, Sa’ada, Sana’a and Ta’iz, the report, prepared by SaferWorld, seeks to shed light on the participation of women in street and institutional politics during Yemen’s...
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Thursday, January 24, 2013
Iraqi Women Seek a New Liberation
BAGHDAD, Jan 16 2013 (IPS) - From full literacy declared in the seventies, Iraq is down to 40 percent literacy for women. From the first woman prime minister and the first woman judge in the Middle East in 1959, Iraq has slipped to a place where an...
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Thursday, January 24, 2013
Women Human Rights Education Institutes
WHRI (six week institute): May 22 - June 28, 2013CEDAW for Change (one week institute): Nov 5 – Nov 9, 2012 and June 3-7, 2013
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Thirty women have been appointed to the Shura Council by Saudi Arabia’s king Abdullah
Monday, January 14, 2013
BBC: Saudi Arabia's king appoints women to Shura Council
Thirty women have been appointed to the Shura Council by Saudi Arabia’s king Abdullah, for a 4-year term. This number represents a fifth of council’s seats. The decision was taken following consultations with religious leaders. In 2014, women will...
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Huffington Post: Saudi Arabia Gender Mixing: Grand Mufti Warns Against Practice
Friday, January 11, 2013
Huffington Post: Saudi Arabia Gender Mixing: Grand Mufti Warns Against Practice
PHOTO: Huffington Post By ABDULLAH SHIHRI and AYA BATRAWY   “Since 2006, women have been appointed as advisors to the council – an appointed, consultative body that has the authority to review laws and question ministers but cannot propose or veto...
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Friday, January 11, 2013
Washington Post: Role of Syrian women evolves as war rages on
PHOTO: Bradley Secker - Hiba al Haji sits with her mother in a cafe on the outskirts of Antakya, close to Turkey's border with Syria. Hiba distributes humanitarian aid and school supplies to displaced Syrians within Syria and the camp for IDPs in...
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Monday, January 07, 2013
UNDP: Arab Development Challenges Report 2011
This second Development Challenges Report, coming at a time when the region is passing through a critical historical juncture, attempts to go beyond the numbers to uncover processes that have underpinned mutually reinforcing drivers of social,...
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
Egypt: Dozens of women protest against constitution in Giza
Dozens of Egyptian women demonstrate in Nahdet Misr Square in the governorate of Giza on Wednesday evening against the proposed draft constitution, ahead of phase two of the national referendum poll scheduled for Saturday, 22 December. Women from...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Egypt: Women’s Rights at Odds in Egypt’s Constitution Wars
The political battle raging on Cairo’s streets is focused on President Mohamed Morsi’s autocratic actions in his efforts to rush through his draft constitution, but the anxiety of those on the street are equally based on the content of that...
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Thursday, December 06, 2012
Syria: Rape is shredding Syria's social fabric
I keep wishing it is not true, too, but what I told the driver that day is that his story sounds all too familiar: Of the hundreds of cases of sexualized violence against Syrian women and men I have heard and documented as the director of the Women...
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Monday, December 03, 2012
Kuwaiti women hope to win seats in parliament
Kuwaiti women are taking part in parliamentary elections both as candidates and voters for the fifth time since they won their political rights. After failing to win seats in the 2012 parliament, which is currently dissolved, Kuwaiti female...
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Sunday, November 25, 2012
Kuwait: Mulaifi, Duwailah, Dabous to contest Speakership
Former MP and First Constituency candidate, Yousef Al-Zalzalah says he will put on top of his priority demands of Kuwaiti women as part of his parliamentary work program when he wins a seat in the Parliament. In a press statement, Al-Zalzalah said...
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Friday, November 23, 2012
Isreal: Livnat: Likud should have woman near top of list
There must be more women in the Knesset, the cabinet, and near the top of the Likud’s Knesset list, Culture and Sport Minister Limor Livnat said on Thursday, three days ahead of Likud’s primary. Livnat, the head of the ministerial Committee on the...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Isreal and Palestinian Territories: Women Peace Activists Demand an End to Attacks in Gaza and Israel
MADRE, an international women’s human rights organization, condemns the growing violence that has killed at least 18 people in the past days: 15 in Gaza and three in Israel. We assert that all attacks against civilians must end immediately....
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Monday, November 19, 2012
Kuwait: Need to ‘lift’ women role
“The Kuwaiti woman remains unfairly deprived of leadership positions in the country even though the Constitution has equated between men and women,” said fifth constituency candidate Saleh Mohawish. Speaking at a seminar organized by the...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
How Have Women's Political Rights Fared in Egypt?
How Have Women'sPolitical Rights Fared in Egypt? Zainab Al-SuwaijExecutive Director of the American Islamic Congress Yassmine ElSayed HaniForeign Affairs Editor and US-based Correspondent for Al Akhbar Daily Newspaper, Cairo Nancy OkailDirector...
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Thursday, November 01, 2012
MENA: What the Arab Spring has done for women’s equality, in one chart
We’ve been looking throughout the day at new data from the World Economic Forum on gender equality throughout the world. We found that the U.S. is finally catching up and in some places exceeding Europe on gender equality and explored the surprising...
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Monday, October 29, 2012
Egypt: National Council Gears Women Up for New Parliament
Egypt's National Council for Women will start a training program to enhance women's political participation in the country's upcoming parliamentary elections. The program, which starts in November, aims to prepare over 1000 female politicians and...
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