Timeline of first women's suffrage in majority-Muslim countries
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This timeline lists the dates of the first women's suffrage in majority-Muslim countries.
Some dates relate to regional elections and where possible the second date of general election has been included. Even countries listed may not have universal suffrage for women, and some may have regressed in women's rights since the initial granting of suffrage. Note that suffrage rights are separate from the right to stand for election.
- 1918 - Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
- 1920 - Albania[1]
- 1921 - Azerbaijan[1]
- 1922 - Kyrgyzstan[citation needed]
- 1924 - Tajikistan[1]
- 1927 - Turkmenistan[1]
- 1930 - Turkey[1]
- 1932 - Maldives[1]
- 1938 - Uzbekistan[1]
- 1945 - Indonesia,[1] Senegal[1]
- 1946 - Brit Palestine[1]
- 1946 - Djibouti[citation needed]
- 1947-1956 - Pakistan[1]
- 1948[1]-1980[citation needed] - Iraq
- 1948 - Niger[1]
- 1949-1953 - Syria[1]
- 1952 - Côte d'Ivoire,[citation needed] Lebanon[1]
- 1955 - Ethiopia,[1] Eritrea[citation needed]
- 1956 - Comoros,[1] Egypt,[1] Mali,[1] Mauritania,[1] Somalia[1]
- 1957 - Malaysia[2][1]
- 1958 - Burkina Faso,[citation needed] Chad,[citation needed] Guinea[citation needed]
- 1959 - Tunisia [3]
- 1960 - Gambia[1]
- 1961 - Sierra Leone[1]
- 1962 - Algeria[2][1]
- 1963 - Iran,[2][1] Morocco[2][1]
- 1964 - Libya,[2] Sudan[1]
- 1965 - Afghanistan[4][1]
- 1970 - Yemen[1]
- 1972 - Bangladesh[2][1]
- 1974 - Jordan[2][1]
- 1978 - Nigeria
- 1993[2]-1994[1] - Kazakhstan
- 1999 - Qatar[5]
- 2002 - Bahrain[6]
- 2003 - Oman[7]
- 2005 - Kuwait[2][1]
- 2006 - UAE[8]
Brunei has no suffrage for men or women. Saudi Arabia has no women's suffrage.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah Woman Suffrage Timeline International - Winning the Vote Around the World
- ^ a b c d e f g h i http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0931343.html%E2%80%9D
- ^ Women's Suffrage
- ^ revoked under Taliban rule 1996-2001
- ^ http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=2334
- ^ freedomhouse.org: Bahrain
- ^ freedomhouse.org: Oman
- ^ Untitled Document
