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Arab women making slow strides

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Arab women are increasingly present in public life, contrary to widespread misconceptions about the region. This is at least what  Youssef Courbage, research director at the French National Institute for Demographic Studies (INED), contends.

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Arab women are increasingly present in public life, contrary to widespread misconceptions about the region. This is at least what  Youssef Courbage, research director at the French National Institute for Demographic Studies (INED), contends.

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Plea for Enforcement of Law Relating to Fight Violence Against Women, Algeria

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Plea for Enforcement of Law Relating to Fight Violence Against Women, Algeria

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Participants in the first International Women's Congress "For a Culture of Peace" called, Tuesday in Oran, for the enforcement of the law to fight violence against women.

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Participants in the first International Women's Congress "For a Culture of Peace" called, Tuesday in Oran, for the enforcement of the law to fight violence against women.

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Our forgotten allies against Islamic State: Iraqi and Syrian women

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Our forgotten allies against Islamic State: Iraqi and Syrian women

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Women and girls living in Syria and Iraq have been 

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Women and girls living in Syria and Iraq have been 

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Beyond the Surface: The Saudi Women Political Question

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By Hala Alwagdani, In the beginning of 2013, King Abdullah Bin Abdul-Aziz of Saudi Arabia announced in a royal decree the appointment of 30 Saudi females in the Saudi Consultative Council. This has been only one of the steps in King Abdullah’s reformist style of ruling. In 2005, he introduced municipal elections, the first democratic elections in Saudi history. In 2011, he granted women the right to vote in these elections and proposed that women run for municipal elections in 2015. What provoked all these pro-female reforms all of a sudden? 

 

Translating Women’s Participation in Politics into Critical Actions and Influence

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October 27, 2014

Translating Women’s Participation in Politics into Critical Actions and Influence

As a South-South forum, the Inter-Regional Seminar on Women’s Political Empowerment, with the theme Translating Women’s Participation in Politics

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As a South-South forum, the Inter-Regional Seminar on Women’s Political Empowerment, with the theme Translating Women’s Participation in Politics

Beyond the Surface: The Saudi Women Political Question

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October 26, 2014

Beyond the Surface: The Saudi Women Political Question

By Hala Alwagdani, In the beginning of 2013, King Abdullah Bin Abdul-Aziz of Saudi Arabia announced in a royal decree the appointment of 30 Saudi females in the Saudi Consultative Council. This has been only one of the steps in King Abdullah’s reformist style of ruling.

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By Hala Alwagdani, In the beginning of 2013, King Abdullah Bin Abdul-Aziz of Saudi Arabia announced in a royal decree the appointment of 30 Saudi females in the Saudi Consultative Council. This has been only one of the steps in King Abdullah’s reformist style of ruling.

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Few women on Tunisian parliamentary poll lists

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Few women on Tunisian parliamentary poll lists

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Tunisia, despite being the most advanced Arab nation in terms of women's rights, is still fare from adhering fully to the principles enshrined in the January 2014 Constitution and from abiding by the ratification of international treaties in daily life. Though 47% of candidates for Tunisia's parliamentary elections scheduled for Sunday are women, only 12% of them are on top of the electoral lists of candidates.

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Tunisia, despite being the most advanced Arab nation in terms of women's rights, is still fare from adhering fully to the principles enshrined in the January 2014 Constitution and from abiding by the ratification of international treaties in daily life. Though 47% of candidates for Tunisia's parliamentary elections scheduled for Sunday are women, only 12% of them are on top of the electoral lists of candidates.

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From barrier to enabler: how politics can help girls live up to their potential

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From barrier to enabler: how politics can help girls live up to their potential

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Malala Yousefzai is the youngest Nobel laureate

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Malala Yousefzai is the youngest Nobel laureate

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