“Kuwaiti women have demonstrated their achievements in various fields and consequently women were approved to enter the military alongside men,” remarked the minister of the area, Sheikh Hamad Yaber al Ali al Saba.
According to what was reported by the Kuwait Times newspaper, quoted by the Europa Press agency, the minister underlined the decision taken based on the “responsibility of the Kuwait Army” to “protect the country.”
Defense’s determination is also framed in the need to “maintain the security of the nation” in the face of external dangers and to allow all citizens to join the “honor of military service.”
In addition, she expressed her confidence in the “capacity, responsibility and will” of the women of the country to “endure the hardships” of serving in the Army while wishing them “success in this experience.”
In 2005 Kuwait passed a bill to give women the right to vote and run for elected office.
And in 2009 the Constitutional Court ruled that they had the right to obtain a passport without the prior consent of their parents, husbands or guardians.
Women and children at risk in Libya
Some 1,000 women and children are in “immediate danger” as detainees in overcrowded prisons in Tripoli, warned the United Nations children’s fund UNICEF.
These groups also share the jail with thousands of other migrants, added the entity.
“Some 751 women and 255 children are among the thousands of migrants and asylum seekers detained in recent mass arrests” in the Libyan capital, he warned.
The Fund assured that there are 30 babies and five unaccompanied minors who are in “immediate danger,” he emphasized.
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