Middle East: January 2000

Women's Rights in Kuwait: Bringing in the Last Bedouins?

By: Mary Ann Tetreault

Description: "The defeat [of legislation that would grant women political rights] is a stark measure of the distrust that pervades government-parliament relations, and of the inability of Kuwaiti governing institutions to rise above patterns of conflict that have poisoned national political life for many years."

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