Compared to the Taliban, whose neo-medieval policies include the banning of soccer and refusing women the right to work outside the home, the government espouses a forward-looking and temperate brand of Islam.
The move means that Kuwait joins Bahrain, Oman and Qatar as the only Gulf States to give women the right to vote and also stand for public office.
Tribal governments have an inherent right to protect their people, and all women deserve the right to live free from fear.
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Harriman was a progressive socialite and advocate for organized labor and the right of women to vote.
The king opened a coeducational university and has given women the right to vote, albeit in largely irrelevant municipal elections.
The monarch, seen as a proponent of gradual reform, has also granted women the right to vote and stand in the next municipal elections, scheduled for 2015.
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"We need to change the law urgently to save lives, " she told peers, and give women and men at risk of domestic violence the right to know if their partner has any previous convictions.
Women from Afghanistan say the issue for them is survival and the right to feed their children, whereas for women in Northern Ireland the main issue is increasing the level of female participation in the negotiating process and representation in government.
And for her singular efforts in championing the right to life of Muslim women and girls, she has been reviled by the Left as an anti-Islamic bigot.
The result is salutary: Americans are beginning to understand the threat of shariah law, and even better, to understand the strengths of their own Constitution to protect the rights of free speech, the right to free association and to freely exercise or leave a religion, the right to bear arms, the right to due process and equal protection under the law for women and children.
Over 50 years since the founding of United Nations and nearly 100 since women won the right to vote in the U.S., the international agency has put women in the spotlight this week with the official launch of UN Women which coincided with the 55th session of the Commission on the Status of Women .
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He opened a coeducational university and has given women the right to vote, albeit in largely irrelevant municipal elections.
Tunisia, where the father of independence, Habib Bourguiba, granted women the right to divorce and encouraged them to get a higher education as far back as the 1960s, is a case in point.
During the French Revolution, Parisian women had requested the right to wear trousers and working-class revolutionaries became known as "sans-culottes" for wearing trousers instead of the silk-knee breeches preferred by the bourgeoisie.
Post-Cairo, the talk is of women's rights and reproductive rights, meaning the right to a free choice over whether or not to have children.
President Obama knows that promoting gender equality and empowering women and girls at home and abroad is not only the right thing to do, but the smart thing to do, as Secretary Clinton has famously said.
On delicate subjects ranging from privatisation to women's right to divorce, the buck passes back and forth between the palace and the cabinet.
Enforced parity, they say, demeans women and undermines the right of voters to choose their representatives freely.
They intentionally include women, for example, in broadcasting a sport they do not play in order to bring more women into its viewership (and I hope because it is the right thing to do).
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Indeed, poor education is at once the result and the cause of the continuing gender-gap that deprives women of their right to take charge of their lives.
The continued right wing attempts to limit reproductive rights of women, and the recent response from the left to require men who use Viagra to have psychiatric evaluations, prostate exams and cardiac stress tests, begs the question again: should politics have a role in healthcare?
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In 2011, King Abdullah granted women the right to vote and run for office beginning in 2015.
He was one of the architects of its 2007 draft policy platform, which formally opposed the right of Christians and women to be president.
Its family code, known as the Moudawana, was revised in 2004 to give far greater rights to women (including equal status in the household, the power to initiate divorces and the right to inherit equally).
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"The invocation of the adverse effect of Plan B on 11-year-olds is an excuse to deprive the overwhelming majority of women of their right to obtain contraceptives without unjustified and burdensome restrictions, " he wrote.
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If we act as role models and mentors to women coming up in the company, let them know when they are on the right track AND when they are off course, and fight FOR high potentials when it comes to promotion time, we can eventually fill more executive positions with deserving women.
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Women, children and men have the human right to be safe, especially in their own homes.
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When the right of honest men and women to own guns is legally upheld, the risk that a potential victim might effectively defend himself rises dramatically, making criminals significantly warier to strike.
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