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When an instructor in Kuwait this month advertised a desert wellness yoga retreat, conservatives declared it an assault on Islam. Increasingly, conservative politicians push back against a ...
Kuwait has a very high percentage of migrant workers. Many Egyptian, Palestinian, Filipino and Southeast Asian women live in Kuwait. Palestinian women have worked in Kuwait since the 1950s, historically as teachers in girls’ schools. [70] Nearly 90% of Kuwaiti households employ a foreigner worker, most often a South Asian woman. [71]
Kuwait first ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in 1994 and 2 years later ratified the ICCPR, or the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, in 1996. In the year 2000, the Kuwaiti government has done little to modify its legislation that discriminates on the basis of gender.
UN human rights experts Alda Facio and Kamala Chandrakirana said despite significant achievements, "discrimination against women persists in law and in practice, particularly in the context of the family and nationality laws, based on the presumption of women's dependence on men, which is contrary to the principle of equality."
Jullebee Cabilis Ranara was a 34-year old woman and an Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) who was serving as a domestic worker for her last employer in Kuwait. [5] Ranara got employed through the facilitation of Philippine-based employment agency Catalist International Manpower Services Company and its overseas counterpart in Kuwait, Platinum International Office for Recruitment of Domestic Manpower.
Alnowair is a non-government organisation launched on the UN International Day of Happiness (20 March) in 2013. [7] Today, its initiatives include Boomerang, an anti-bullying school outreach programme, Yelloworks, a corporate training programme for building positive work cultures around Kuwait, and Yellow Window, an initiative to raise awareness on the benefits of a positive attitude amongst ...
Lulwa Al-Qatami, in Arabic: لولوة القطامي (born 1933/34 [1]) is an activist and educator, who was the first woman from Kuwait to attend university abroad. A former director of Kuwait University and UNESCO ambassador, she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 and in 2019 was awarded the Legion of Honour for her services to education and women's empowerment.
Since 1982 she has been teaching political science at the Kuwait University. She has been active in the field of equal rights for women and also writes a daily column for Al Anba newspaper. [4] In 2002 she collected signatures on a petition opposing segregation by gender or abolishing coeducation in Kuwait. [5]