Kuwaiti women activists march February 17, 2002 to a voting registration center to demand the...

Kuwaiti women activists march February 17, 2002 to a voting registration center to demand the right to add their names to electorate lists. Kuwaiti women activists, ignoring repeated failure to gain political rights, on Sunday marched into voter registration stations to demand the right to add their names to electoral lists. [Scores of women in the Muslim conservative Gulf Arab state marched to the stations waving banners demanding equal rights and reminding the country of a failed 1999 decree by ruler Emir Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah granting them the right to vote and run for public office. The banner being carried by the women reads, "When will Kuwaiti women get their political and social rights to vote and stand in elections."]