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Saudi Arabia: release of women's rights advocates

 

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Saudi Arabia: As Women’s Driving Ban Ends, Provide Parity

(Beirut) – Saudi authorities, in ending the ban on women driving, should not impose any additional restrictions that it does not impose on men, Human Rights Watch said today. Saudi authorities announced on September 26, 2017, that the government would end the longstanding ban on women driving cars in Saudi Arabia.

 

Uganda bans maids from working in Saudi Arabia

Uganda has banned women from working as maids in Saudi Arabia.

UGANDA - Article published the Wednesday 27 January 2016 - Latest update : Wednesday 27 January 2016

Analysis: The value of women voting in Saudi Arabia

Hala Aldosari | 13 Dec 2015 13:38 GMT

Votes continue to be counted in Saudi Arabia's municipal elections, in which women were allowed for the first time to cast ballots. According to official figures, 130,000 women registered to vote in Saturday's poll, compared with 1.35 million men.

First Saudi women register to vote

 Al Jazeera | 20 Aug 2015 10:53 GMT

 Dozens of women are expected to contest Saudi Arabia's municipal elections for the first time in the country's history.

 

Saudi Arabia – Women Traveling Alone without Permission of Guardians, Under Study

 Tuesday 9 June 2015, JEDDAH

The Passport Department is currently drafting regulations that would see women travel without the permission of their guardians.

Saudi Arabia: Moms visiting clinics seeking male children

Arab News – Tue, Mar 17, 2015

Many Saudi women are obsessed with having male children in the belief that they are more likely to become breadwinners and continue the family line, Arab News has found.
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Saudi Arabia: ‘Dear King Salman, why I’m terrified about our Saudi future,’ by a loyal subject

Dear King Salman,

As a loyal subject of the Al Saud royal family, I congratulate you on your ascension to the throne. I join both fellow Saudis and world leaders, including U.S. President Barack Obama, who will be here in Riyadh on Tuesday, in expressing my condolences for the recent death of King Abdullah and sending good wishes to you, our new king.

Saudi Arabia: Release Maysaa Alamoudi and Loujain Alhathloul
December 7th 2014, Via October 26th Driving Campaign
 
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October 26th Driving campaign expresses its deep concern for the recent arrests and detention of two women activists who drove their cars to the Eastern border of Albatha'a in Saudi Arabia. 

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