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Until June 2018, women were not allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia was the only country in the world at the time with such a restriction. [208] On 26 September 2017 King Salman decreed that women would be allowed to obtain driver's licenses in the Kingdom, which would effectively grant women the right to drive, within the next year ...
The Women to Drive Movement (Arabic: قيادة المرأة في السعودية, romanized: qiadat almar'at fi alsueudia, lit. 'Women Driving in Saudi Arabia') was a campaign by Saudi women, whom the government denies many rights to which men are entitled, [2] for the right to drive motor vehicles on public roads. Dozens of women drove in ...
Feminism in Saudi Arabia dates back to the ancient, pre-Roman Nabataean Kingdom in which women were independent legal persons. [1] [2] Twenty-first century feminist movements in Saudi Arabia include the women to drive movement [3] [4] and the anti male-guardianship campaign. [5] Madawi al-Rasheed argued in 2019 that the Saudi feminist movement ...
Amman, Jordan Saudi Arabia lifted its decades-long ban on women driving this month, but the moment was tainted by the Saudi government’s retaliation against those who have long led the fight for ...
Saudi women are in the driver’s seat for the first time in their country after the world’s last remaining ban on women driving was lifted on Sunday. Saudi women are on the roads and driving as ...
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 Saudi Arabia had limited freedom of movement and in practice were not allowed to drive motor vehicles on public roads. [15] In 1990, dozens of women in Riyadh drove their cars in protest, were imprisoned for one day, had their passports confiscated, and some of them lost their jobs. [ 16 ]
The 2018–2019 Saudi crackdown on feminists consisted of waves of arrests of women's rights activists in Saudi Arabia involved in the women to drive movement and the Saudi anti male-guardianship campaign and of their supporters during 2018 [1] and 2019. [2] The crackdown [3] [4] [5] was described in June 2018 by a United Nations special ...