{"id":24397,"date":"2015-02-08T07:06:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T06:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=24397"},"modified":"2015-02-08T07:06:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T06:06:30","slug":"24397","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/24397\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s Rights Conference For Men Only"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saudi Arabia\u2019s prestigious Univeristy of Qassim played host to one of the biggest women\u2019s rights conferences in the Arab world in 2012. Ironically, the institution managed to hold the event without the advice or attendance of a single woman.
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Themed around the topic of \u201cWomen in Society\u201d the conference, originally intended to be held annually at the University, is supposed to set a benchmark for tolerance and progress in the region.\u00a0Delegates and speakers from more than fifteen countries showed up.<\/p>\n

As is to be expected from Saudi Arabia, a country firmly under the grip of its own twisted interpretation of Sharia Law, zero women attended the event. At least not in the same building as the men. Perhaps more hypocritically, a woman is yet to lecture to men at a University of Qassim summit.<\/p>\n

The picture below was pubished by Okaz, an Arabia newspaper, but it has just recently surfaced in the European press.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia is still\u00a0ranked 127th out of 136 countries for gender parity.<\/p>\n

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