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The government of Bahrain has made a commitment to women and developing women’s rights. This 3 page paper looks at the progress and areas of achievement and considers the current political aspects of women rights in the country and considers areas where political moves to increase equality may be argued as still required. The bibliography cites 5 sources.
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that women first voted and were able to stand for election in Bahrain (Wright, 2006, Fenn, 2003). In these elections 40 seats were being contested by a total of 174
candidates, including 8 women (Wright, 2006). This may be seen as a major step forward in womens rights, but it is also worth noting that in this first election although
52% of all voters were women, no women won seats (Wright, 2006). However, the government remains committed to establishing and increasing womens rights (Anonymous, 2007). It may be argued
that Bahrain is now catching up with much of the rest of the world. However the context of the country as an Islamic and Arabic Nation must also be considered
in the way that the rights are developed and the idea of gender equality is not universally accepted by many in political office. However, Bahrain in a member of the
United Nations and under the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights it states "Everyone has the right to take part in the government of their country" at article 21 and
Article 7 (a) of CEDAW1 says that the states will commit themselves to policies that women will be able to "vote in all elections and public referenda and [be] eligible
for election to all publicly elected bodies" (quoted Sakr, 2000). Therefore, the rights given omen may be seen as meeting an international obligation made to others as well as to
the women of Bahrain. However simple passing the legislation is not sufficient to give women rights, the political changes have to be accepted as right and adopted in the way
they are practiced. The fact that women voted and stood for election was a move forward, but the fact than none were elected indicates there is still a long way
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