, In Kuwait, "one of the most pressing issues today is women's suffrage" (Kuwaiti Women pg.1). Even though the Amir issued a decree granting women the right to vote in May 1999, it was then denied and struck down by the National Assembly in November 1999. In the Kuwaiti parliament, the issue of the women's right to vote was considered three times, yet each time it was rejected by a combination of conservatives a
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