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        "msgid": "uae-women-to-join-parliament-1447893297",
        "date": "1997-01-16 00:00:00",
        "title": "UAE women to join parliament",
        "author": null,
        "source": "AFP",
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        "topic": null,
        "summary": "UAE women to join parliament ABU DHABI (AFP): The United Arab Emirates, a conservative Moslem nation, yesterday dropped long-standing social barriers and said women could play a role in politics as members of its appointed parliament. \"From our experience in the Federal National Council (FNC), we now feel that we really need the women to play their role in the parliamentary life.",
        "content": "<p>UAE women to join parliament<\/p>\n<p>ABU DHABI (AFP): The United Arab Emirates, a conservative<br>\nMoslem nation, yesterday dropped long-standing social barriers<br>\nand said women could play a role in politics as members of its<br>\nappointed parliament.<\/p>\n<p>\"From our experience in the Federal National Council (FNC), we<br>\nnow feel that we really need the women to play their role in the<br>\nparliamentary life. I think women are behind all political<br>\ndecisions in the world,\" parliament speaker al-Haj ibn Abdullah<br>\nal-Muhairbi told the official daily al-Ittihad when asked whether<br>\nit was time for women to join parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Muhairbi's comments come a week after the UAE president's wife<br>\nSheikha Fatima, who heads the Emirates Women's Union, called for<br>\nlocal women to be allowed to join the FNC, the appointed<br>\nparliament in the oil-rich Gulf country.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first time that UAE officials have openly called<br>\nfor women to be admitted into political life, which has remained<br>\nrestricted to men.<\/p>",
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