Au forum économique de Djeddah, les femmes, invitées pour la première fois à participer, ont fait entendre leur voix et exhorté les autorités saoudiennes à engager des réformes en leur faveur.
With just half a million Afghans registered since early December 2003, the process has a long way to go to enfranchise the estimated 10.5 million potential voters eligible to participate in elections this summer.
Nous, militants associatifs sur la ville, et pour certains issus de l’immigration, dénonçons le caractère politique de la manifestation contre la préparation d’une loi sur le port du voile à l’école qui se tiendra samedi 17 janvier 2004 à Paris.
But it is quite ironical that though fundamentalist forces have been systematically rehabilitated and encouraged through the two military governments it is through their participation in the pro-democratic movement and the support which they gave to a democratically elected government of 1991, that they emerged stronger than before.
A burst of violence in Thailand's southern region since Sunday has forced into the open the simmering question about Bangkok's relationship with the country's Muslim minority.
