KUWAIT CITY, Dec 14: Dr Bibi Ashour – Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Kuwaiti Society for National Fraternity and human rights activist – confirmed Kuwait’s participation in a study on violence, its causes and solutions; along with the rest of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, r
KUWAIT CITY, Dec 14: Dr Bibi Ashour – Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Kuwaiti Society for National Fraternity and human rights activist – confirmed Kuwait’s participation in a study on violence, its causes and solutions; along with the rest of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, r
Kuwait s new all-male parliament is a blow for women s rights
Although none of the 29 female candidates won a seat in Kuwait s elections they are far from stopping their efforts. But analysts fear calls for quotas and women s political leadership are falling on deaf ears.
Women candidates were out in force during the election campaign but failed to win a seat in parliament
Less than a week after Kuwait s 4.8 million people (including 3.4 million foreign workers without voting rights) elected new members for the next four-year term of their national assembly, the shock that none of the female candidates made it, is setting in. In total, 326 candidates were vying for the 50-member legislature, 29 were women.