Kuwaiti women demand vote

Kuwait - Hundreds of Kuwaiti women forced their way into male-only registration centres yesterday to demand the right to vote…

Kuwait - Hundreds of Kuwaiti women forced their way into male-only registration centres yesterday to demand the right to vote after repeated denials of their political rights.

The women took buses to 13 centres across the conservative Muslim state seeking to add their names to lists of eligible voters, a group that currently includes only some men.

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