No gender parity in new Tunisia electoral law: HRW ...Kuwait

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A new electoral law introduced by Tunisian President Kais Saied in September eliminated the principle of gender parity in elected assemblies, a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report said earlier this week. "The new law strips gender parity provisions from a previous electoral law that strove to ensure equal representation between men and women in Tunisia’s elected assemblies, although Tunisia’s new constitution explicitly upholds this principle," the report said. In what was labelled a sham vote by critics, a majority of Tunisians voted in favour of a new constitution this summer which gave the president far more powers. Amendments to the electoral law in 2014 required poli

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