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...conservative clerics to allow a single young woman to study abroad, albeit with her father's permission. Bangladesh passed legislation increasing the punishments for crimes against women, including rape, kidnapping and acid attacks. Egypt has banned female circumcision and made it easier for women to sue for divorce. In Qatar women have the right to participate in municipal elections and are promised the same rights in first-ever parliamentary balloting scheduled to take place by 2003. Bahrain has assured women voters and candidates that they will be included in new elections for its suspended parliament...
...worthy aims of the new round of World Trade Organization negotiations, the six-day talks to launch them last week in Doha were grueling and acrimonious. The meeting in the tiny Gulf state of Qatar was characterized by sly diplomatic intrigue, brutal arm twisting, pompous political grandstanding and foul humor. And although bleary-eyed ministers and officials claimed the new trade agenda more or less pleased everyone, they also showed that getting 142 nations to agree on anything is like building a house of cards on the back of a galloping camel...
...conservative clerics to allow a single young woman to study abroad, albeit with her father's permission. Bangladesh passed legislation increasing the punishments for crimes against women, including rape, kidnapping and acid attacks. Egypt has banned female circumcision and made it easier for women to sue for divorce. In Qatar women have the right to participate in municipal elections and are promised the same rights in first-ever parliamentary balloting scheduled to take place by 2003. Bahrain has assured women voters and candidates that they will be included in new elections for its suspended parliament. (See the top 10 players...
...Qatar: To broadcast or not to broadcast...
...Here comes the mother of all dilemmas for the U.S. networks. Qatar's Gulf Times reports that Osama bin Laden has instructed aides to kill him themselves rather than allow his enemies the pleasure, but that he has already recorded a final TV rant to be released after his death. Bin Laden reportedly calls for more attacks on America in his posthumous propaganda pitch, but will U.S. TV networks show...