Women's Rights Remain a Challenge in Middle East
From The Human Rights Project
(Washington, DC--July 20, 2005) The results of a Freedom House survey show that religion is used to discriminate against women in predominantly Muslim countries, although it is not the root cause of the discrimination. Sameena Nazir, Senior Research Coordinator at Freedom House and project director of the "Survey of Women's Rights in the Middle East and North Africa" provided an overview of the study to a recent RFE/RL audience.
Nazir said the survey examined women's rights in 17 selected countries and territories (Algerian, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, the Palestinian Authority and Israeli-Occupied Territories. The survey's goal was to review the progress of women's rights, identify the obstacles to progress, examine the causes and consequences of gender discrimination, and make recommendations for further progress in women's rights.
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Posted: 7-20-2005
