BBC NEWS World Middle East Kuwaiti women vote for first time: "Polling is taking place in a Kuwaiti council by-election in which women are allowed to vote for the first time.
Two women are also among eight candidates running for the seat in the Salmiya district, south of the capital"
(The picture at right shows Kuwaiti women demonstrating in the early 1990s for the right to vote. This has been a long struggle, and thankfully now a successful one.)
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