Turkey,Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. Later Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iraq, Israel,Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Sudan, Tunisia,Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Yemen agreed like the others to respect the charter as acode of laws that were superior to their state laws. Because of the Universal Declarationof Human Rights, each member agreed to follow each of the articles contained within thecharter which means they agreed: ...to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the humanperson, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and toestablish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising fromtreaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and to promote socialprogress and better standards of life in larger freedom...34As women become educated about such things as the United Nations Charter, theyare beginning to see that they have been slighted. With education, women will be able tohave the tools to fight their oppressors. Fatima Mernissi predicted the 1990's right whenshe declared that there would be agitation on the cultural front due to gains in education:The battle of the 1990s will be a battle over the civil codes, which women challenge ascontrary to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and which the authoritarianstates defend as sacred. By propelling women out of the house into the streets througheducation and paid work, modernity has perverted the ideal homogeneous city, pushingit into dangerous territory where unmasked, irreverent women speak an unknownlanguage. The equality they demand, say the supporters of the caliphal, despotic Islam,is a foreign, imported idea. These women are traitors, allies of the West and itsphilosophies, like the Mu'tazila and rationalists of yesteryear who tried to import Greekideas...Women have been, are, and will continue to be targets of intimidat...
