CAIRO — In the second potent showing of opposition rage in less than a week, tens of thousands of people streamed into Tahrir Square on Friday, angrily denouncing Egypt's president, Mohamed Morsi, and the hasty passage earlier in the day of a draft constitution written by an Islamist assembly.
The passage of the draft legislation shows that attacking the supposed enemies of "family values" can be an easy pleaser come election time everywhere.
But conflict between President and Congress made passage of that draft less likely: the Congress shifted onto more and more rewriting of the 1978 Russian Constitution, while President pushed forward with new draft Constitution, which doesn't define state symbols.
UNICEF and the WHO call on all stakeholders from Parliament and civil society to support the speedy passage of the draft regulations into legislation.
It focussed on securing passage of an Equal Rights Amendment, drafted by Paul, who had lately earned a law degree, and first introduced into Congress in 1923.
Japan's rightward shift under Abe, including the recent passage of a state secrets law, has rekindled uncomfortable memories for a man drafted to fight in a war he now believes was tragically misguided.
As Cairo's streets fill with protesters after the rushed passage of the new draft Constitution, all eyes are on the confrontation between the newly re-energized opposition and the supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood.
He complained of a draft.
She drafted and with the aid of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mary Livermore, and others—secured passage of a bill in 1869 that gave married women the right to retain their own wages and protected the rights of widows.
Despite the passage of a new law in the last parliament, Netanyahu has told haredi parties – whom he may need to form a coalition – that he would not insist on jail time for draft dodgers.
