 | A call to educate students on CEDAW
A course on training trainer on the Convention of Elimination of Discriminations Against Women (CEDAW) called for a programme for school students to educate them about the agreement’s articles and concepts. >> |
|  | Survey to highlight the needs of youth
To be launched by the Bahrain Youth Forum Society (BYFS) the survey is part of “Dare to Change” project expected to begin next year. Questionnaires will be distributed on Thursday at Seef Mall (shopping complex with majority of Bahraini youth). More youth would target later at important location whi.. >> |
| Foreign Wives May have to Wait for 15 Years for UAE Nationality
Expatriate women who marry Emiratis will have to wait for 15 years in order to seek UAE citizenship, if a proposal being studied by the Ministry of Interior is implemented. The Director of Legal Affairs Department in the Ministry of Interior, Lieutenant-Colonel Rashid Al Khedr, told Khaleej Times the ministry is studying a proposal to increase the.. >> |
|  | Woes’ of Mixed Marriage
The Research and Security Studies Centre (RSSC) of Abu Dhabi Police has called for a law to discourage mixed marriages amongst UAE nationals. According to Khaleej Times, it urged for plugging the loopholes in the law governing UAE citizens marrying foreign women, specially youth, except in certain c.. >> |
| Celebration to mark Jerusalem as Arab Culture Capital
Jerusalem is awaiting a big event for being chosen to be the Arab Cultural Capital in 2009. Palestine has allocated US$10 million to mark the one-year celebrations that would start from January 22. Around 140 activities, including festivals, exhibitions and seminars will be organised in Gaza, 1948 Palestine and Jerusalem. A traditional Bahraini hou.. >> |
|  | Female parliamentarians and decision makers call for political empower of women
The Third Regional Conference for Gulf Women Parliamentarians and Women in Decision Making Positions which has concluded in Muscat called for increasing participations of females in GCC parliaments. It also urged for mechanisms to enhance image of females in the region to politically, socially and e.. >> |
| Saudi mufti objects women working in lingerie shops
Saudi Arabia's grand mufti has objected to women working in lingerie shops, despite the labour ministry's approval and rising complaints from female customers about male-only staff, papers said Wednesday. "Women are entrusted to us, we should not involve them in matters far from their nature," mufti Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh said. The mufti's disapprova.. >> |
|  | Bahrain parliamentary delegation back from Muscat
Female members of the Bahrain parliamentary delegation returned home on Tuesday, following their participation in the Third Regional Conference of Gulf Women Parliamentarians and Women in Decision Making Positions which has concluded in Muscat. The conference was organized by the Omani Consultative.. >> |
|  | Family law rejection increases
The implementation of the family law takes on step forward to be followed with ten backward. Conservative scholars with men-oriented thoughts from both sects stand as the main challenge of turning the law into reality. Activists were overjoyed of the cabinet announcement of the referring of the 27-y.. >> |
|  | Bahraini women are trailblazers
Bahrain's pioneering strides in providing modern education for women since the 1920s were hailed yesterday. "The establishment of modern education for women was a unique and historic turning point which had no parallel in the region," His Majesty King Hamad said in his National Day address at the he.. >> |
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