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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Middle East: Women Leaders of Tomorrow
More than 75 young people from Bahrain, Oman and Qatar are taking part in a three-day leadership conference which opened at the Royal Society for Women in East Riffa yesterday. The first Association for International Students in Science,...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Middle East and North Africa: Arab Conference Targets Improving Women's Participation in Politics
A regional seminar on "Gender and Local Governance" held on March 14 in the Tunisian capital highlighted the close link between "economic and domestic development and women’s participation in local politics". Forum attendees from Tunisia,...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Middle East: Arab Women Need to Have a Larger Role in the Media
The media’s handling of women’s issues has always generated heated debates in different communities around the world, and the Arab region is no exception. This week, a pan-Arab panel of media practitioners and experts convened in Abu Dhabi...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Middle East and North Africa: Where is the Money for Women's Rights?
On April 20-22, AWID, together with the Global Fund for Women, convened a feminist strategy meeting in Marrakech, Morocco, to discuss feminist resource mobilisation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. AWID interviews Leila...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
UAE: Study Lauds Women's Role in Politics and Governance
Dubai A first of its kind independent study assessing the role of women in politics in the UAE was released on Monday at the Dubai School of Government. Co-authored by the Dubai School of Government's Gender and Public Policy programme and the...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Middle East: Gender Report: Middle Eastern Nations Among Worst
Middle Eastern countries have performed dismally in a recent international report on gender equality in property rights. The Gender Equality in Property Rights index, released by the Property Rights Alliance, measures women's free possession,...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Iran: Women in Iran March Against Discrimination
Women, regarded as second-class citizens in Iran, have been noticeably front and center of the massive demonstrations that have unfolded since the presidential election a week ago. To read the full story, please visit CNN's Website.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Lebanon: Hard Politics for Lebanon’s Women
Women lost out big time in the elections in Lebanon in June. There were a mere six women MPs out of 128 in the Lebanese parliament. Now there are only four. Lina Abou-Habib, director of the Centre for Research and Training on Development...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Middle East: Middle Eastern Women Gain Political Inspiration in Wisconsin
The Young Women Leaders Academy (YWLA), a year-long program that aims to inspire and empower young Middle Eastern women to pursue political careers in their home countries, culminated in a two-week retreat in Madison, Wisconsin, last month,...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Arab Women See Protests Creating Opportunity for Equal Rights
Azza Kamel, a women’s rights advocate in Egypt, said the popular uprisings in her country and its neighbors are creating new opportunities for women.  “There was no difference between women who were veiled or not veiled,” Kamel said at the...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
The Middle East’s feminist revolution
Among the most prevalent Western stereotypes about Muslim countries are those concerning Muslim women: doe-eyed, veiled and submissive, exotically silent, gauzy inhabitants of imagined harems, closeted behind rigid gender roles. So where were...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Arab States: Is revolution in Mid-East bad for women's rights?
Egyptians gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square, in a victory celebration, after their revolution unseated president Hosni Mubarak. Tunisians have also been sampling new freedoms of speech and press. But even as the exultation lingers, women in...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Arab states: The fight for women's rights in the Middle East
Jane Martinson reports from the Women in the World summit, where campaigners are drawing attention to the internet as a tool to aid women in the Middle East. To read the full article, please visit The Guardian.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Arab states: Muslim women remake their image
When the stories and images of these thousands of diverse and complex Muslim women hit the airwaves, they not only shattered stereotypes, they also revealed the fallacy of focusing solely on the veil. These discussions have been counter-...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
UN Women: United Nations official commends women for promoting democracy in N-Africa
The Executive Director of UN Women, Ms. Michelle Bachelet, on Friday commended women for their role in the pro-democracy protest movements that have swept across North Africa and the Middle East. She, however, said their rights and leadership...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Arab states: The rising voices of Arab women - from social activism to eco-feminism
From hunger fasts in Bahrain, to women’s only marches in Yemen, to Asmaa Mahfouz (known as “a woman worth 100 men”), whose anti-Mubarak video helped trigger the revolution against autocratic rule, to the defiant Iman Al-Obeidi in Libya, women...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Middle East & North Africa: Women have emerged as key players in the Arab spring
From the earliest rumblings of discontent in Tunisia at the turn of the year, it was clear that old images of Arab women as deferential, subservient and generally indoors would have to be revised. From the highly-educated Tunisian female...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Global: Women are essential to democracy
The woman in Tahrir Square was worried. "The men were keen for me to be here when we were demanding that Mubarak should go," she told me when I visited Cairo last month. "But now he has gone, they want me to go home". Some of the bravest...
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