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  • The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1979 and subsequently signed by 165 nation-states, emphasizes the importance of equal participation of women with men in public life. Yet two decades later women remain far from parity worldwide at the apex of power, as heads of state at Prime Ministerial and Presidential levels, in the executive branch as ministers and as senior public officials, and within parliamentary assemblies (IDEA 1998; UN 2000). But what is the situation today at the most fundamental level of citizenship: in terms of women’s voting participation? Laws restricting women’s rights to vote and to stand for election persist in a handful of Middle Eastern countries, including Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman and the United Arab Emirates (UNDP 2000). In newer democracies, such as Namibia and South Africa, most women have only recently acquired voting rights. In established democracies, however, women have now had the legal franchise for many decades; since the 1920s in most Protestant countries and since the 1950s in most Catholic ones... (xsd:string)
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