UN urges freedoms for Arab women (BBC)

UN urges freedoms for Arab women

Discrimination against women is holding back economic and social development across the Arab World, a report by the UN's development agency says.

Arab women must be given greater access to education, employment, health care and public life, the report says.

The Arab Human Development Report is an annual overview compiled by Arab academics and experts in the field.

Islam is not to blame for the problem, the report says, but rather political inflexibility, male domination and war.

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"Arab countries stand to reap extraordinary benefits from giving men and women equal opportunities to acquire and utilise knowledge," the report says.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6216896.stm

This is pretty obvious, in that those countries where women do have the same opportunities as men are not still stuck in the 19th century.

friggin duh!