No women elected in Omani vote
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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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The Saudi interior minister says women will not be allowed to vote in the county's  municipal elections.
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TASHKENT, Uzbekistan -- Uzbeks voted yesterday in a parliamentary election in which opposition groups were barred from running, sparking criticism from Europe's top election watchdog and a fierce defense from the country's authoritarian president, who insisted that Uzbekistan has no "real" opposition.
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BAGHDAD, December 5 (IslamOnline.net &amp; News Agencies) - With unabated attacks and bombings leaving at 41 Iraqis and six occupation forces dead in the past 24 hours, a senior UN official cast doubt on the possibility of organizing the scheduled elections
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The United Nations has not sent enough election workers to help out with vital balloting in Iraq set for January, the Iraqi foreign minister said Wednesday.
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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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United Arab Emirates leaders have named eight women to a 40-seat advisory council, in addition to one female member elected in the Gulf state's first elections in December, the state news agency WAM said on Sunday.
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Algeria's government has failed  to take needed measures to protect women from rape, beatings  and widespread legal and economic discrimination, Amnesty  International told a U.N. panel on Monday.
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A bid to radically lift the number of women elected to Turkey's parliament, which has one of the lowest levels of female representation in the world, looks set to fail this Sunday.
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Hand-picked voters cast ballots in the United Arab Emirates' first elections on Saturday to choose half the members of an advisory assembly for the Gulf Arab nation.
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Iraqi Official Says UN Has Not Sent Enough Workers to Help With Balloting in Jan. Elections. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari gives a news conference in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Oct 20, 2004.
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Iraq's election body rejected a suggestion in Washington it adjust the results of next month's vote to benefit the Sunni minority if low turnout in Sunni areas means Shi'ites win an exaggerated majority in the new assembly.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's election body rejected a suggestion from Washington that it adjust the results of next month's vote to benefit the Sunni minority if low turnout in Sunni areas means Shi'ites win an exaggerated majority in the new assembly.
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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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Leaders of the Shiite political alliance that won Iraq's election failed to agree on a single nominee for prime minister Wednesday, with the two candidates insisting on a vote by the alliance's 140 parliamentarians, officials said.
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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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(Baghdad, Iraq -AP, Nov. 27, 2004 1:15 PM) _ Shiite Muslim religious leaders in Iraq are rejecting any delay in holding elections.