ARABS-UN - Aug. 22 - Saudi To Join Convention On Women's Rights.Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia (sä  `dē ərā`bēə, sou`–, sô–), officially Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, kingdom (2005 est. pop. decides to join a convention on women's rights The effort to secure equal rights for women and to remove gender discrimination from laws, institutions, and behavioral patterns.The women's rights movement began in the nineteenth century with the demand by some women reformers for the right to vote, known as suffrage, and , but says it was not committed to any clauses that contradict con·tra·dict v. con·tra·dict·ed, con·tra·dict·ing, con·tra·dicts v.tr. 1. To assert or express the opposite of (a statement). 2. To deny the statement of. See Synonyms at deny. Islamic sharia law Noun 1. sharia law - the code of law derived from the Koran and from the teachings and example of Mohammed; "sharia is only applicable to Muslims"; "under Islamic law there is no separation of church and state" Islamic law, sharia, shariah, shariah law applied in the kingdom. After a meeting chaired by King Fahd, the Saudi cabinet says in a statement it had decided to join the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. The cabinet statement, carried by local newspapers on Aug. 22, says the kingdom would not abide by "any clause in the agreement that contradicts Islamic sharia". It says the kingdom did not consider itself "bound by clause 2 of article 9 and clause 1 of article 29 of the convention". (Saudi Arabia bars women from public life. Under the convention, part 2 of article 9 stipulates that members "shall grant women equal rights with men with respect to the nationality nationality, in political theory, the quality of belonging to a nation, in the sense of a group united by various strong ties. Among the usual ties are membership in the same general community, common customs, culture, tradition, history, and language. of their children". Part 1 of article 29 stipulates that "any dispute between 2 or more States Parties concerning the application of the Convention which is not settled by negotiation shall, at the request of one of them, be submitted to arbitration", adding: "If within 6 months from the date of the request for arbitration the parties are unable to agree on the organisation of the arbitration, any one of one of those parties may refer the dispute to the International Court of Justice". |
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