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Saudi women are granted the right to vote. Now what?
TweetIn an unprecedented move, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia granted women the right to vote this past Sunday. Women in Saudi Arabia have been organizing on a variety of fronts, pushing for political representation, fighting for the right to drive and for more mobility in public since as of right now women have to be chaperoned when [...]
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“What these women are doing is brave”: Clinton Responds to Saudi Women Drivers
Tweet You may have heard about women in Saudi Arabia organizing a plan to jointly defy the women’s driving ban by encouraging women with international driver’s licenses to get in their cars and drive on June 17. Yesterday Secretary of State Hillary Clinton responded to the demands of these Saudi activists and spoke out in [...]
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Saudi women’s campaign for the right to drive in action today
Tweethttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuKlDnUzerA Organized a month ago after a Saudi activist, Manal al-Sharif and her brother, were arrested for driving, today Saudi women (and maybe even some men dressed in women’s clothing) will be taking to the streets to protest women’s ban on driving. The video above is one of the first released of a woman driving [...]
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Saudi women’s rights activists arrested for challenging driving ban
TweetThis weekend, Manal al-Sharif and her brother were arrested by Saudi authorities after posted a video on YouTube (has hence been made private) that shows her driving a car and convincing others to, on June 17th, in protest of Saudi Arabia’s ban against women driving. Sharif is one of the organizers of Women2Drive, a right-to-drive [...]
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Saudi women finally allowed to join work force… to sell lingerie