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The Consultative Council (Majlis al-Shura) is the name given to the upper house of the National Assembly, the main legislative body of Bahrain.

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Biased Against Women on Commercial Registrations Despite Law in Bahrain

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Bahrain Tribune - 11 January, 2008

The Shura Council has criticised the implementation of the Commercial Law saying it discriminates against women and their rights. After a complete review of the law, the Shura women and children committee discovered that more privileges were given to men compared with women.

“Although the law states gender equality in granting commercial registrations, women are being deprived of their right to obtain certain CRs and being excluded from certain types of businesses,” panel head Dalal Al Zayed said.

The panel would review the law for possible amendments and plans to submit a series of questions to the ministers concerned on reasons behind discrimination against women.

“The law does not discriminate against women but the implementation process is against economic empowerment of women. So a series of questions would be submitted to know how to deal with the problem,” she said.

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