UAE hopes to allow women judges: report
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The United Arab Emirates hopes to amend a law and allow women to become federal judges and prosecutors, a local newspaper quoted Justice Minister Mohammed Nakhira al-Zahiri as saying.
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Saudi Arabia must create laws to protect women from violence and also allow them to play a bigger role in society and the workplace, the United Nations said on Thursday.
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A top Saudi diplomat and member of the royal family predicted that women will be allowed to vote in future elections, giving women in the strictly segregated Islamic nation a political voice for the first time.
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The Arab world's slow lurch toward democracy will take another step forward this weekend when the wealthy United Arab Emirates holds the first election in its 35-year history.
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a report released Wednesday that he hopes to appoint judges to the international tribunal to prosecute suspects in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri by the end of the year.
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TEHRAN -- Activists should not try to change Islamic laws relating to women's rights, Iran's supreme leader said yesterday, two days after one campaigner was reportedly sentenced to 34 months in jail and 10 lashes.
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Japan's ruling party considers proposing constitutional changes to let women take the throne, reports say.
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LONDON, Sep 10 (IPS) - The appointment of a deputy prosecutor to the   International Criminal Court is expected to strengthen the  court's  commitment to justice for women.
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The outcome of asylum cases can be influenced by things like the location of the court and the sex and professional background of judges, a study has found.
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Most, if not all, of the country&#39;s existing women&#39;s prisons should be shut down in the next decade or converted into jails for men, a government-commissioned report recommended Tuesday.
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Women may neither vote nor run in Saudi Arabia's first nationwide elections, the government announced Monday, dashing hopes of progressive Saudis and easing fears among conservatives that the kingdom is moving too fast on reforms.
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Iran's hard-line leadership ruled out allowing women to run for president in June elections, denying reports in the state-run media yesterday that it had decided to allow female candidates for the first time.
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Women in Saudi Arabia can now stay in a hotel or a furnished apartment without a male guardian, according to a government decision
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Officials at the Wimbledon tennis championships announced Thursday that they will pay equal prize money to women for the first time this year.
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Pro-Western Gulf Arab states meeting for a summit in Bahrain hope that Iraq&#39;s elections will produce a broad-based government, their host said Monday.
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Saudi authorities, breaking with religious codes that require women to be accompanied by a male guardian, have decided to allow women to stay in hotels on their own, a newspaper reported on Monday.
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The sight of women working as bus and taxi drivers, petrol pump attendants or police officers in Algeria's larger towns can surprise newcomers by suggesting women are emancipated in Algeria. They are not, feminists say.