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, by AL-SHEHRI Malak, M. Nasir
In July 2016, a number of Saudi women’s rights activists launched a campaign advocating for the end of the male guardianship system. This system describes a set of laws in Saudi Arabia that position women as life-long minors, with all their life choices determined by a male relative, who could (…)
Saudi Arabia: Kingdom must be held to account for suppression of dissent, following murder of journalist and widespread arrest of women’s rights defenders
Recognising the fundamental right to express our views, free from repression, we the undersigned civil society organisations call on the (…)
, by HVIDT Martin
After years of campaigning by women activists, on June 24 the ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia will be lifted. It is the most visible of a bundle of recent initiatives taken by the Saudi king and the crown prince , Mohammad bin Salman, to strengthen the role of women in Saudi society. (…)
The undersigned human rights groups call on the Saudi authorities to immediately and unconditionally release all human rights defenders arrested in the past two weeks who were detained solely for their support of women’s rights or other peaceful human rights work in Saudi Arabia. We further call (…)
, by SIDAHMED Mazin
Protest movement seeks to end Saudi Arabia law requiring women have permission of a male guardian to travel, marry or do other fundamental tasks.
Thousands of Saudis have signed an online petition calling for the government to abolish the country’s guardianship system, which prevents women (…)
, by GREENWOOD George
Despite Saudi women standing for office for the first time, the country still has a long journey towards gender equality.
Around 900 women will be standing among 7,000 people vying for seats on the county’s 284 local councils.
However, despite finally winning a right in 2015 that British (…)
, by SHAHEID Faizer
A verdict of death has once again been delivered in the great Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and this time it was rather a question of morality than that of murder. The unnamed Sri Lankan woman has been found guilty of fornication and has therefore been sentenced to be stoned to death. Such is the (…)
, by GCHR
Two activists Maysaa Al-Amodi and Lujain Al-Hathlol have been arrested on 1st December 2014. They have both been working strongly in defense of women’s right to drive in Saudi Arabia and have participated actively in the campaigns, “I have the right to lead” and “my right to my dignity.” (…)
, by AFP
RIYADH — Denied the right to travel without consent from their male guardians and banned from driving, women in Saudi Arabia are now monitored by an electronic system that tracks any cross-border movements.
Since last week, Saudi women’s male guardians began receiving text messages on their (…)
, by Amnesty International, BBC, JONES Sam
Saudi women will soon be allowed to vote but driving remains a banned activity
A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a woman to 10 lashes for breaking the country’s ban on female drivers.
The woman, identified only as Shema, was found guilty of driving in Jeddah in July.
Women2drive, which (…)
, by CHULOV Martin, DAVIES Lizzy
King Abdullah’s ’cautious reform’ will not take effect until 2015 but welcomed as cultural shift in conservative Islamic country.
Women in Saudi Arabia will be given the right to vote and to stand for election within four years, King Abdullah announced on Sunday, in a cultural shift that (…)
, by Al-HUWAIDER Wajeha, POLLITT Katha
Wajeha al-Huwaider is perhaps the best-known Saudi campaigner for women’s rights, human rights and democracy. She has protested energetically against the kingdom’s lack of formal laws (the Koran is it) and basic freedoms and in particular against the guardianship system, under which every (…)
“Arresting a woman who drove her family around in a car and then showed it online opens Saudi Arabia to condemnation - and, in fact, to mockery - around the world. The longer she stays in prison, the more the kingdom will have to answer for.” Christoph Wilcke, senior Middle East researcher at (…)
, by Al-HUWAIDER Wajeha
Dear Mr. President,
Allow me to introduce myself: I am Wajeha Al-Huwaider, Saudi writer and women’s rights activist in the Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia.
When you meet with King Abdullah Bin Abdul-Aziz next week, we kindly request that you bring to his majesty’s attention the issue of reforming (…)
, by SANDELS Alexandra
Many were stunned when Saudi cleric Sheik Abdel Mohsen Obeikan recently issued a fatwa, or Islamic ruling, calling on women to give breast milk to their male colleagues or men they come into regular contact with so as to avoid illicit mixing between the sexes. But a group of Saudi women has (…)
, by POLLITT Katha
In most countries, a woman in her mid-20s is legally an adult. And in most countries, foreigners are free to leave when they like. In its flagrant rejection of these two principles, Saudi Arabia is unique, and that is a big problem for 24-year-old Nazia Quazi.
For more than two years Nazia, (…)
, by MICHAEL Maggie, WLUML
UPDATE: Saudi Arabia: Court ratifies guilty verdict on 75 year old women
2/09/2009: On 25 August the court of Al-Shamli, north of Hail, found Mrs Khamisa Sawadi guilty of the charge of “khilwa” (mingling with two young men to whom she was not immediately related), and the higher court in (…)
, by BBC
A court in Saudi Arabia is reported to be preparing to hear a plea for divorce from an eight-year-old girl who has been married off to a man in his 50s.
The Saudi newspaper al-Watan said the girl had been married off to the man by her father without her knowledge.
The child’s mother is (…)
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