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In 2019, Saudi Arabia allowed women to travel abroad, register for divorce or marriage, and apply for official documents without the permission of a male guardian. Male guardians have duties to, and rights over, women in many aspects of civic life.
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 ...
The logo of the women to drive movement. Until June 2018, Saudi Arabia was the only country in the world in which women were forbidden from driving motor vehicles. [1] The Women to Drive Movement (Arabic: قيادة المرأة في السعودية, romanized: qiadat almar'at fi alsueudia, lit.
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.
Saudi Arabia is a theocracy organized according to the principles of Islam, which puts emphasis on the importance of knowledge and education.In Islamic belief, obtaining knowledge is the only way to gain true understanding of life, and as such, both men and women are encouraged to study.
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 ...
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]
Wadjda ( Arabic: وجدة) is a 2012 Saudi Arabian drama film, written and directed by Haifaa al-Mansour. It was the first feature film shot entirely in Saudi Arabia [7] [8] [9] and the first feature-length film made by a female Saudi director. [10] It won numerous awards at film festivals around the world.