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To: NickSE who wrote (101721)6/16/2003 6:28:18 PM
From: NickSE  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Arab prince ousted for supporting rights of women
straitstimes.asia1.com.sg

.....According to the paper, a government employee close to the ruling family said the move centred on his wife, Shaikah Fawqai al-Qassimi, a playwright and women's rights activist in her early 40s.

'Sheikh Khaled was told, at a meeting with his father and six of his brothers, that he had to banish his wife from the emirate and demolish the ladies' club that helps women here if they have problems,' the employee was reported to have said.

'She has done a lot to bring the country forward, but Sheikh Saud does not feel there is a place for women in today's Arab society.'.....

Anti- violence conference on Arab woman: Half of all wives beaten last year
arabicnews.com

An official report about violence against Arab women revealed a drastic shortage in information on the prevalence of this phenomenon, noting that the demographic and health survey for 1995 was the first field study to discuss the extent of the spread of certain aspects of violence phenomenon against women in Egypt.

The report stressed that one in three Egyptian woman were exposed to beating in the past year and the rate reaches more than half concerning beating in general during marriage time and that 45 % of them were beaten once, at least this year, while women exposed to beating for three to 6 times during the same period of time reached 17%, and that 10% of women who were beaten to the extent that they needed medication.

Moreover, 32% of the women were beaten during their pregnancy.....
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