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.
Women won the right to vote in 2005 and became MPs in 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".
Kuwaiti women enjoy more freedoms than in neighbouring Saudi Arabia, where there is strict gender segregation and women are not allowed to drive cars.
Women activists welcomed the passport ruling but say they still need equal access to government housing and the right to pass citizenship to their children.
i was under the impression the yanks were established in kuwait since 1992... then this too long to get into action.
Just about time..
Salam
a welcome move.
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brit, (from other ql members responses to you in the past, as I don't know you personally) I believe you can find them at the Ramada car park.
lol brit - fix a gprs in their..... wherever u want. :)
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What in the blue blazes is going on ? How will we know ehere they are now ?
I still find it hard to believe that things like this still happen in the 21st century. I don't think I could live in a place like SA where women are still treated this way.
Amazing...can you imagine the uproar if a man had to have his wife's signature on his passport application?
"Marriage is a wonderful institution...but who wants to live in an institution?" -- Groucho Marx
some light to the dumb brains.
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equal rights for women should be practiced...