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Thousands of Egyptian women march to protest military brutality
Tweet [Video via] Yesterday, several thousand women marched through Cairo in what historians described as the biggest women’s demonstration in modern Egyptian history. From the AP: Around 10,000 women marched through central Cairo demanding Egypt’s ruling military step down Tuesday in an unprecedented show of outrage over soldiers who dragged women by the hair and [...]
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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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What’s the deal with Facebook’s new ‘Women Connect’ campaign?