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Bahrain, Politics, 11/13/2003

With the great multilevel progress achieved in the last few years in Bahrain, and recognized by many including the opposition, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights submitted to the UN committee in charge of discrimination a report under the title "discrimination and privileges in the Kingdom of Bahrain: the unwritten law."

The chapters of the report are distributed under the following titles: Discrimination against women on assuming public higher posts; discrimination in employment in public works against persons from the Shiite community; Sectarian discrimination in employment in the attorney general, the shoura council and the parliament; Sectarian discrimination regarding religious beliefs practices; and high ranks posts which are acquired by al-Khaleifa family members.