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On 9 November 2005, supporters of Al Wefaq claimed to have organised
Bahrain's largest ever demonstration with 120,000 protesting against the introduction of the Personal Status Law, and for the maintenance of each religious group having their own divorce and inheritance laws. On the same day, an
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The government is using the family law issue as a bargaining tool with opposition
Islamic groups. This is evident through the fact that the authorities raise this issue when ever they want to distract attention from other controversial political issues. While no serious steps are taken to help
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approve this law, although the government and its puppet
National Assembly had no trouble in the last four years when it came to approving restrictive laws related to basic freedoms. All of this is why no one in Bahrain believes in Government clichés and government institution like the
2003:, making her the first Middle Eastern woman and the third woman in history to take over the post. Sheikha Haya is a leading Bahraini lawyer and women's rights advocate who will take over the post at a time of change for the world body. UN Secretary General
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Islamist groups in alliance with the
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Bahraini society, not least from women themselves, with 60% of Bahraini women in 2001 opposing extending the vote to women.
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elected MPs nor the government have the authority to change the law because these institutions could 'misinterpret the word of God'. Instead, the right to change the law is the sole responsibility of religious leaders.
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in an alliance with other women's rights activists, began a campaign for change - organising demonstrations, putting up posters across the island and carrying out a series of media interviews.
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ten most powerful and effective women in the Arab world
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2270:"In the Gulf, Women Are Not Women's Best Friends"
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2388:, Amnesty International, March 2002
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2410:Personal law plan rapped
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2471:Gulf News 27 June 2006
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683:Reproductive rights
489:Part of a series on
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2475:First female judge
2436:BBC, 19 April 2005
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