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ccharles000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-21-09 11:00 AM
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Kuwaiti women win passport rights
Kuwaiti women will be able to obtain their own passport without the consent of their husbands, following a ruling by the country's constitutional court.

The court, whose decisions are final, said the previous requirement was in violation of guarantees of freedom and gender equality in the constitution.

The decision came about when a woman complained her husband had prevented her from leaving the country.

The country's first female MPs were elected in May 2009.

The article abolished by the court dated back to Kuwait's 1962 passport law which required a husband's signature on a woman's passport application.

Aseel al-Awadhi, one of the new MPs, welcomed the passport law ruling as a "victory for constitutional principles that puts an end to this injustice against Kuwaiti women".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8317921.stm
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leftynyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-21-09 11:01 AM
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1. I guess that's progress
Edited on Wed Oct-21-09 11:02 AM by leftynyc
Although that such a law was on the books in 2009 makes my head hurt. Time to drag the neanderthals into this century - kicking and screaming if we have to.

Edited to add: By "we" I mean women the world over.
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ensho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-21-09 11:03 AM
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2. good
nt
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BolivarianHero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-21-09 11:05 AM
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3. I bet if they were communist instead of semi-Islamist...
The mouthbreathers would call them DICKTATERS!!!
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ccharles000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-21-09 03:00 PM
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4. kick
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