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Challenging Inequality: Obstacles and Opportunities Towards Women's Rights in the Middle East and North Africa

COUNTRY RATINGS

Although all but two of the countries reviewed in this report, Oman and Qatar, have ratified the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), a major international agreement on women's equality, none of the countries evaluated can claim to meet internationally recognized standards for women's rights. According to the survey's 1-to-5 rating scale, a score of 3 in any category reflects an imperfect adherence to universally accepted rights standards. In this study, countries seldom receive a score of 3.0 in any of the five broad categories, and some countries receive ratings in the range of the lowest possible score, 1.0. A rating of 3.0 represents conditions in which a woman's ability to exercise her rights is sometimes restricted by the government or by non-state actors, in which some laws that provide adequate protection for women are in place but are poorly implemented, and in which women suffer discrimination in some areas of political, economic, or social life.

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