KUWAIT, March 7 (Reuters) – Around 500 Kuwaiti activists,
mostly women, demonstrated outside parliament on Monday to
demand female suffrage amidst tensions in the Gulf Arab state
over a government drive to grant women political rights.
“Women’s rights now,” chanted the crowd, which included
women dressed in abayas, or traditional long black cloaks. Some
of the demonstrators wore veils over their faces.
“Our democracy will only be complete with women,” said a
placard written in Arabic. “We are not less, you are not more.
We need a balance, open the door,” said one written in English.