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[[Brunei]] has no suffrage for men or women. |
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Revision as of 15:23, 30 September 2011
This timeline lists the dates of the first women's suffrage in majority-Muslim countries. (Dates for the right to vote, suffrage, as distinct from the right to stand for election and hold office, are listed.)
Some dates relate to regional elections and where possible the second date of general election has been included. Even countries listed may not have universal suffrage for women, and some may have regressed in women's rights since the initial granting of suffrage.
- 1918 - Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
- 1920 - Albania[1]
- 1921 - Azerbaijan[1]
- 1924 - Tajikistan[1], Kazakhstan[1]
- 1927 - Turkmenistan[1]
- 1930 - Turkey[1]
- 1932 - Maldives[1]
- 1938 - Uzbekistan[1]
- 1945 - Bosnia, Indonesia,[1] Senegal[1]
- 1946 - British Palestine[1]
- 1947-1956 - Pakistan[1]
- 1948[1]-1980[citation needed] - Iraq
- 1948 - Niger[1]
- 1949-1953 - Syria[1]
- 1952 - Lebanon[1] (An educational requirement was dropped in 1957).[2]
- 1956 - Comoros,[1] Egypt,[1] Mali,[1] Mauritania,[1] Somalia[1]
- 1957 - Malaysia[3][1]
- 1959 - Tunisia[4]
- 1960 - Gambia[1]
- 1961 - Sierra Leone[1]
- 1962 - Algeria[3][1]
- 1963 - Iran,[3][1] Morocco[3][1]
- 1964 - Libya,[3] Sudan[1]
- 1965 - Afghanistan[5][1]
- 1970 - Yemen[1]
- 1972 - Bangladesh[3][1]
- 1974 - Jordan[3][1]
- 1978 - Nigeria
- 1993[3]-1994[1] - Kazakhstan
- 1999 - Qatar[6]
- 2002 - Bahrain[7]
- 2003 - Oman[8]
- 2005 - Kuwait[3][1]
- 2006 - United Arab Emirates[9]
- 2015 - Saudi Arabia[10]
Brunei has no suffrage for men or women.
See also
- Rawya Ateya (first female parliamentarian in Egypt and the Arab world)
- List of equal or majority Muslim countries
- Sex segregation in Islam
- Women in Islam
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah Woman Suffrage Timeline International - Winning the Vote Around the World
- ^ Books.google.com
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Infoplease.com
- ^ Women's Suffrage
- ^ revoked under Taliban rule 1996-2001
- ^ Washingtoninstitute.org
- ^ Freedomhouse.org, Bahrain
- ^ Freedomhouse.org, Oman
- ^ Untitled Document
- ^ Women in Saudi Arabia 'to vote and run in elections'