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News | Tunisia citizenship law to boost women's rights - 0 views

  • the Tunisian government is working on a draft law that allows women to give the citizenship to their children
  • According to the law, all children born to Tunisian mothers are to be given the Tunisian citizenship whether born inside or outside Tunisia and regardless of the father’s nationality and even if the father’s identity is unknown
Ed Webb

Syria Comment » Archives » What Does Turkey's "Yes" Vote Mean for Democracy - 0 views

  • The coastal region is Kemalist, but the major cities, Istanbul and Ankara and most of Anatolia is for Erdoghan and the AK Party.
  • Turkish voters decided that they want the army to return to its barracks and not deployed on Turkey’s streets. They want generals and judges off the front pages of the newspapers, where they have been so prominent for a century. Officers and judges have viewed themselves as the guardians of the state rather than of law.
  • It strengthens gender equality and bars discrimination against children, the elderly, the disabled and veterans.
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  • It recognizes the right to protection of personal information and limits government access to personal records.
  • The struggle between supporters of the old secular but authoritarian elite, who have held power since 1923, and the AK government is likely to continue despite the government’s narrow victory.
  • The Istanbul Stock Exchange 100 index rose 2.7 percent yesterday to a record, helped by the referendum results. Erdogan, 56, has plenty to brag about in the Turkish economy. “A Turkey that in 2002 was the 26th-largest economy in the world is now the 17th,” he said in a speech in Ankara on June 29. “Turkey is being talked about as an example for the world. We’re being watched with envy.” Under the AK Party, the government has tamed the inflation that plagued the country for decades. Since early 2004, consumer price increases have been no more than 13 percent. That’s a victory in Turkey, where the inflation rate touched 73 percent as recently as February 2002 and was even higher, on average, throughout the 1990s.
Ed Webb

Turks Approve Changes in Constitution - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Western diplomats said the vote would also embolden Mr. Erdogan’s increasingly assertive foreign policy. His Justice and Development Party has sought to make Turkey a player in regional diplomacy as a European bridge to other Muslim countries.
Ed Webb

The Associated Press: Saudi telecom shuts websites violating Fatwa edict - 0 views

  • Saudi Arabia's telecom regulator has shut down three websites that were violating a government decree limiting the issuance of religious edicts to the country's most senior group of clerics
Ed Webb

Mobile phones, Internet essential in building democracies | Hamara News covers Politics... - 0 views

  • Globally, one in 10 Internet users is a Muslim living in a populous Muslim community. Often young and digitally savvy, these users spread information independently of governments and beyond manipulation by cultural and religious elites. The researchers found that day-to-day civic discourse, not cyber terrorism, is the most important political aspect of the Internet in Muslim countries, and that the Internet is helping societies get better at running elections, providing civic services and exposing corruption. Researching their topic, Howard and his team determined that "The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy" would be the first book to move beyond potential and hypothetical relationships between the spread of communication technology, such as mobile phones and the Internet, and empirical evidence about democratic outcomes.
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