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This timeline lists the dates of the first women's suffrage in Muslim majority countries. Dates for the right to vote, suffrage, as distinct from the right to stand for election and hold office, are listed.
Women's suffrage – the right of women to vote – has been achieved at various times in countries throughout the world. In many nations, women's suffrage was granted before universal suffrage , in which cases women and men from certain socioeconomic classes or races were still unable to vote.
On May 17, 2005 a bill was passed 37 votes for and 21 votes against women’s suffrage, granting Kuwaiti women the right to vote and run for an elected office. [3] Four years later, in May 2009, four female candidates won parliamentary seats in a general election out of fifty available seats.
Some countries in Africa: The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, better known as the Maputo Protocol, guarantees comprehensive rights to women including the right to take part in the political process, to social and political equality with men, to control of their reproductive health ...
The death penalty has proven difficult to eradicate in the Middle East due largely to many countries’ legal systems being based around religion, which is more “resistant to change than systems based solely on legislation”. [9] In most countries in the Middle Eastern region, the legal system is largely based primarily on Shari'a.
Some countries, such as Saudi Arabia, managed to achieve considerable progress in promoting women’s rights, such as the right to vote or run in municipal elections. In Tunisia, however, a conservative Islamist party was introduced which struck Arab women worryingly, since they view this change as an obstacle to their possibility of further ...
Despite that Ecuador granted women suffrage in 1929, which was earlier than most independent countries in Latin America (except for Uruguay, which granted women suffrage in 1917), differences between men's and women's suffrage in Ecuador were only removed in 1967 (before 1967 women's vote was optional, while that of men was compulsory; since ...
The issue of women's rights is also the subject of fierce debate. [1] When the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948, Saudi Arabia refused to sign it as they were of the view that sharia law had already set out the rights of men and women, [1] and that to sign the UDHR would be unnecessary. [2]