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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]
In the 2003 election, women created mock ballots that “allowed hundreds of women to cast symbolic votes for real candidates.” [2] In March 2005, 1,000 people surrounded the Kuwaiti parliament and on May 17, a bill was passed 37 votes for and 21 votes against, granting Kuwaiti women the right to vote and run for an elected office. [3]
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.
Fourteen women registered to run in the 2023 election, the lowest since the 2016 election. The only female MP during the 17th session, Jenan Boushehri , re-ran for office. Eight female candidates ran in the Third Constituency , two candidates ran in the Second and Fourth constituencies, and only one ran in the First and Fifth .
Human rights in Kuwait are a topic of significant concern. Most notably, Kuwait's handling of the stateless Bedoon crisis has come under substantial criticism from international human rights organisations and the United Nations. [1] [2] [3] Kuwait has the largest number of stateless people in the entire region.
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 ...
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]