Saudi Women Can't Vote, Run in Elections
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - 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.    Some women considered the move yet another indignity in a country where they need their husbands' permission to study, travel or work...
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Only days before Saudi Arabia's first elections in more than 40 years, the kingdom is engaged in a wide-ranging civics seminar on what it means to vote in a country named for the family that rules it.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi Arabia began its tentative experiment in democracy yesterday as thousands of men filed into schools, government offices, and streetside tents to cast what for many were the first votes of their lives.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Candidates backed by Islamic clerics won races in the Saudi capital in the kingdom's first regular balloting, an election observer said yesterday. But it was too early to say whether this represented a trend in the landmark municipal elections, which will be spread across three months.
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YABED, West Bank - Dozens of women defied traditional Islamic limits and pressures, running for office and winning in last weekâs West Bank local elections, reflecting a new political awakening in a male-dominated society.
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Campaigning has been dirty and divisive ahead of parliamentary elections Saturday in this U.S. Gulf ally: Mobile text messages warn voters that a landmark Shiite Muslim victory would turn Bahrain into a new Iraq and that female candidates will spread immorality.
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Nine people are detained after access is denied to a Saudi court trying three reformists, witnesses say.
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Outspoken feminist writer Nawal Saadawi says she will run in Egypt's presidential poll but does not expect to win.
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Oman's 84-member advisory Shura Council will have no women members after 21 female candidates failed to win seats in Saturday's election.
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Across the world, women are making great strides in just about every professional arena, including politics. Among the world&#146;s 10 most populous nations, how many have not had a woman as head of government or state in modern times?
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Despite tough odds, some Mideast women are gaining power.
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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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Saudi men started voting in municipal elections in the capital Riyadh on Thursday, the first stage in an unprecedented nationwide vote in the absolute monarchy which is inching toward reform.
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Some female voters came in buses and others stepped out of chauffeur-driven cars at polling stations Thursday, as women in Kuwait voted in parliamentary elections for the first time.
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BAGHDAD, 26 November 2004 - Iraqâs Sunni Muslim political parties yesterday threatened to boycott the Jan. 30 election. âWe call for elections to be postponed for six months because the security situation
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None of the 21 women who ran in Oman's elections won seats in the 84-member advisory Shura council, a symbolic body with no formal say in state affairs in the Gulf Arab country, results showed on Sunday.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- During 30 minutes at a Riyadh voter registration center, only two people -- an old man and a prince -- walked in to sign up for the kingdom's first nationwide elections. At another center, a mere eight people registered in 45 minutes.