Are there countries in the world which do not practice universal suffrage?
Among the countries that we report in the database women do not have the right to vote in Kuwait. There are many countries in the world that do not have democratic elections and where suffrage rights are obviously limited. There is a global history of franchise, containing information on the spread of universal suffrage, to be found at: http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/suffrage.htm .
