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She was a former minister for Planinng and Development in Kuwait from July 2012-January 2014) and a former MP from May 2009-January 2012).She is considered a prominent activist in Kuwait, the Middle East, and North Africa. She is also considered a defender of democratic, economic, and gender equality reform.\u00a0 Dashti lobbied for the May 2005 decree permitting\u00a0Kuwaiti women<\/a>\u00a0to run for parliamentary elections for the first time.\u00a0She She is one of the first female MPs elected in the Kuwaiti parliament in 2009.<\/p>\n

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