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Now that Yemen’s Saleh has agreed to cede power, Nadya Khalife says it’s time to remember the country’s girls who are being forced into marriage. The practice dooms many young women and should be stopped as part of the transitional reform process.
Tunisia has led the Middle East on women’s rights and toppling autocracy. Now women are in line to run for office in equal numbers as men in the first elections. The threat of rollbacks and reversals also lurks.
Egyptian women fought for the overthrow of Mubarak alongside men. But now the male-domination of transitional politics is like going backwards, writes Nadya Khalife of Human Rights Watch.
International Women’s Day this week gave women in the Middle East a chance to review some significant achievements. In rebuttal, Nadya Khalife says too many governments in the region restrict a wide spectrum of women’s rights.