Bahrain appointed a woman judge yesterday for the first time in its history, becoming the first among the Gulf states.
His Majesty King Hamad issued a decree appointing Mona Jassim Al Kawari to the civil courts. “I am very proud to be the first woman judge in Bahrain,” Ms Al Kawari said after her appointment. “This nomination does not surprise me though because His Majesty has been encouraging women since the launch of reforms.”
GDN :: 7 Jun ’06
Good news to start the day with… Congratulations Bahrain, and Ms. Mona!
Comments
AAAAAAAAAAAH a pig just flew into my house and started singing Jap-Pop Kareoke songs!!!
Yesterday was the day of the birth (666) now woman are becoming judges? I’m telling you people, Doomsday is on its way… all we need to set this in stone now is for Mahmood to announce he’s “coming out of the closet”…. Then we would surely all be doomed!
Isn’t it too early to have a drink Clippa? You BAD boy! 😉
That’s absolutely fantastic!
love the news…….GDLUCK
Fabulous, fabulous, fabulous!!!
Every single step counts. (for some reason the Sting song, “I’ll be watching you” comes to mind!)
And it’s not 666 in the Islamic calender, only the Roman one, which is fitting since the “real” 666 was the beast Nero, though Ann Coulter, who chose this day to release her new book called “Godless” (and you can’t make this stuff up) does a fairly good imitation!
But Yay for Bahrain – hopefully some of her sisters will be joining her before too much longer. This is really wonderful news….
Wonderful news! Congrats to the lady. Go Bahrain.
Well I remember saying when you started your blog that Bahrain needed at PTA cause then look out for the women when they “got together”. Guess a judge is another step; maybe if you can get more women in office, there will be no stopping progress. I know; it sounds sexist, but you know what I mean.
Yes, this IS good news…Unless you stand accused before her and it’s a certain time of the month.
I wasn’t going to comment, but to the last anon: STUPID! Seriously, what an idiot.
I know I shouldn’t stoop down to your level, but it feels good saying how I really feel, so why not eh 😉
Shroof
Great news. On a good note also:
Bahrain woman to head UN assembly
——————————————————————————–
Bahrain’s first female diplomat Haya Rashed al-Khalifa is due to be formally elected president of the UN General Assembly, UN officials say.
Ms Khalifa, 53, will succeed Jan Eliasson, the Swedish foreign minister.
Ms Khalifa was approved by the 191-nation assembly’s Asian bloc in accordance with the rotation principle.
She is one of the first women to have practised law in Bahrain. She is known as a champion of women’s rights in the country’s Islamic courts.
She has her own law firm and is an adviser to Bahrain’s royal court.
In 2000-2004, she was Bahrain’s ambassador to France.
Ms Khalifa will become the third woman to head the UN General Assembly after the election later on Thursday.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5060710.stm
before u go ahead and congratulate bahrain for this achievment, you should look at this woman’s credentials. Al Kuwari got the equivalent of the LLB in 2000, 6 years ago only! She needed another 2 years to become a practicing lawyer. Where does this take place other than in bahrain…lawyers in the UK take at least 15 years to be considered as members of the judiciary…Wake up, everything is not what it seems….
Typical reaction to the appointment of a woman – start the innuendo about her credentials. Any excuse, huh?
I wouldn’t get too excited about her appointment, folks! She embarrrassed the hell out of herself in an interview on AlArabia channel yesterday! Before anyone makes assumptions… I AM A BAHRAINI WOMAN!!!
I hope the government wakes up and realizes the mistake they have made in selecting an unexperienced uneducated woman like her! She had no clue as to how to answer the interviewer. She almost had ZERO views on women and their rights. She had nothing to say about the situation in our Sharia courts and kept going on and on about her new appointment and how it proves that women have equal opportunities in Bahrain. Fine! There is no problem in that, but she was using that as an answer to every single question. She also kept saying how Bahrain is perfect in every way and she has no clue why people are complaining about court cases here! (DUUUUUH!!!!) Not only that, the interviewer was trying to control her laughter by the end and just decided she had had enough of this woman! SOOOOO EMBARRASSING!!!
o’ oh!
I haven’t seen the script of that interview, but heard several views of people who were totally against women’s rights using that interview to justify their stance.
If Ms. Al-Kawari’s appointment is just a PR stunt, then that has already backfired, and that would have delayed the onset of women’s rights a few years at least.
The hope now is for shaikha Hayya at the UN I guess.