Kuwaiti Women Secure the Vote

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 7 March 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

On 7 March 2005 a group of women held an unprecedented rally outside the Kuwaiti parliament. They were trying to force the all-male body to change the electoral law. Two months later they succeeded. Zeinab Dabaa has been hearing from Rola Dashti, one of the organisers of the protest, who later became one of the first women to be elected to her country's legislature.

(Photo: Kuwaiti candidates for the 2006 parliamentary election, Aisha al-Rashid (R) and Rola Dashti (C), the first ever women to be allowed to stand for office Credit: Yasser al-Zayya/AFP/Getty Images)

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1:10.2	as told by the people who are there I am Zainab Tabah and today I am taking you back to
1:16.1	March the 7th 2005 and a women's rights demonstration in Kuwait. Several hundred women were gathered outside the parliament building
1:26.0	demanding the right to vote.
1:28.0	Women's rights now, women's rights now.
1:32.0	You had young women, you have... You have
1:35.0	elderly women, high schoolers,
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