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According to a World Bank study titled "Women, Business and the Law 2020," which tracks how laws affect women in 190 economies, Saudi Arabia's economy scored 70.6 points out of 100, a dramatic increase from its previous score of 31.8 points. "2019 was a year of 'groundbreaking' reforms that allowed women greater economic opportunity in Saudi ...
The video was released the same day many women in Saudi Arabia staged a nationwide protest against the Government. [130] In 2015, a Saudi woman working in neighboring UAE was arrested as she tried to enter Saudi Arabia. She had her passport taken from her and was forced to wait at the Saudi-UAE border without any food or water.
A decision by the United Nations to appoint Saudi Arabia as the chair of the 69th session of the Commission on the Status of Women has been criticized by women’s rights advocates.
Women in oil-rich Gulf countries have made some of the biggest educational leaps in recent decades. Compared to women in oil-rich Saudi Arabia, young Muslim women in Mali have shown significantly fewer years of schooling. [83] In Arab countries, the first modern schools were opened in Egypt (1829), Lebanon (1835) and Iraq (1898). [84]
By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - A U.N. rights watchdog called on Saudi Arabia on Monday to end discriminatory practices against women, including its pervasive system of male guardianship ...
U.N. human rights experts on Friday called for the release of two Saudi Arabian women they say were arbitrarily detained and denied basic rights after tweeting criticism of the kingdom's policies ...
Madawi al-Rasheed argued in 2019 that the Saudi feminist movement was "the most organised and articulate civil society" in Saudi Arabia. [6] She argued that the Saudi feminist movement obtained support from global feminist movements and popularised human rights concepts beyond equality between men and women. She stated that Saudi-feminist ...
The crackdown [3] [4] [5] was described in June 2018 by a United Nations special rapporteur as taking place "on a wide scale across" Saudi Arabia; the special rapporteur called for the "urgent release" of the detainees. [3] Six of the women arrestees were tortured, [6] [7] some in the presence of Crown Prince advisor Saud al-Qahtani. [8]