11.   Kuwait is currently the only Arab Gulf state with an elected legislature, but Kuwaiti women cannot run for office or vote.

12.   Kuwaiti women get the right to vote.

13.   Kuwaiti women here still cannot cast ballots in parliament elections.

14.   Kuwaiti women, for their part, continue to push their cause in court.

15.   Last month, however, a missing Kuwaiti woman returned home after more than five years in Iraq.

16.   The Chinese did not interfere with Kuwaiti women demanding that Iraq free Persian Gulf War prisoners or Iraqis protesting the U.N. embargo.

17.   The Kuwaiti woman was identified only by her first name, Manar.

18.   The viewer criticized a program guest for asking God to save the emir, who had recently granted Kuwaiti women the right to vote and run for parliament.

19.   Unlike many of their counterparts elsewhere in the region, Kuwaiti women can travel without the consent of their fathers or husbands, drive and work.

20.   Islamists have also been blamed for denying Kuwaiti women access to representative democracy.