Kuwaiti Women Demonstrate
Charles Johnson
Mon Mar 7, 2005 at 1:40 pm PST • Views: 1,875
Another amazing sign of seismic change in the Middle East: Kuwaitis demonstrate for women’s suffrage. (Hat tip: Golden Jerusalem.)
KUWAIT (Reuters) - Around 500 Kuwaiti activists, mostly women, have demonstrated outside parliament to demand female suffrage amidst tensions in the Gulf Arab state over a government drive to grant women political rights.
“Women’s rights now,” chanted the crowd, which included women dressed in abayas, or traditional long black cloaks. Some of the demonstrators at Monday’s protest wore veils over their faces.
“Our democracy will only be complete with women,” said a placard written in Arabic. “We are not less, you are not more. We need a balance, open the door,” said one written in English.
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Kuwaiti women demonstrating for their rights in front of Kuwait’s Parliament, in Kuwait City on Monday, March 7, 2005. Several hundred women and supporters of women’s rights converged near the National Assembly before the Parliament session in which the rights of women would be discussed. In arguments by both sides at the Assembly, a number of proponents of a law giving women full political rights indicated that Islamic Sharia law was not against political rights for women. (AP Photo/Gustavo Ferrari)
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