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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.
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. [211] 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 ...
Up until June 2018, Saudi Arabia was the only country in the world where women were banned from driving motor vehicles. [8] The women to drive movement (Arabic: قيادة المرأة في السعودية qiyādat al-marʾa fī as-Suʿūdiyya) was a campaign established by Saudi women [9] claiming for the right to allow women driving motor ...
Saudi King Salman ordered that women be allowed to drive cars, ending the conservative Islamic kingdom's status as the only country where that's forbidden. Saudi king issues decree allowing women ...
Manal al-Sharif became the face of the women's driving movement after making headlines in 2011 when she posted a video of herself driving in Saudi Arabia.
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]
As part of its reform drive, the kingdom lifted the prohibition of women entering sports stadiums. [27] Saudi women were allowed to watch a football match in a stadium for the first time in January 2018. The women were segregated from the male-only sections, and were seated in the "family section". [28]
Foreign visitors can rent cars in Saudi Arabia, and both men and women can drive – provided their international driver’s licenses and other paperwork are in order.