Saudi women barred from voting
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The Saudi interior minister says women will not be allowed to vote in the county's  municipal elections.
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The United States rejected a  Saudi plan for an all-Muslim force to protect U.N. election  staff in Iraq because the force would not have been under U.S.  command, New York daily Newsday reported Monday.
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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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DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia, Sept. 23 -- For the first time since a demonstration in 1990, a group of Saudi women is campaigning for the right to drive in this conservative kingdom, the only country in the world that prohibits female drivers.
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RIYADH: A Saudi dissident yesterday failed to pull off protests called in Riyadh and Jeddah. Hundreds of police and special forces were deployed to stifle one of the boldest attempts to defy the ban on public displays of discontent.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Women may neither vote nor run in Saudi Arabiaâs 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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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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Men wearing traditional daggers at their waists and women in head-to-toe black dress cast ballots Wednesday as Yemen's long-ruling president faced a serious challenger at the polls 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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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Women may neither vote nor run in Saudi Arabia's first nationwide elections, the government announced yesterday, dashing hopes of liberal Saudis and easing fears among conservatives that the kingdom is moving too fast on reforms.
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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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Tens of thousands of Iraqis, notably in restive Sunni Arab areas, may have been denied their right to vote on Sunday because of insufficient ballots and polling centers, officials said.
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Uzbek voters are casting ballots in a parliamentary poll from which opponents to President Karimov are barred.
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Saudi Arabia banned tinted car windows on Sunday in a move aimed at preventing militants escaping detection on the kingdom&#39;s roads.
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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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Iran's legislative watchdog on Saturday  backtracked on remarks that women could be allowed to run in  June's presidential election.
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Women in this conservative oil-rich emirate voted in parliamentary elections for the first time Thursday, a vote that also inspired surprisingly vocal calls for reform and criticism of the ruling family.