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Saudi Women Use Wedding Contracts To Assert Right To Drive
Saudi salesman Majd had just begun his wedding preparations when his fiancee sought to enshrine in their marriage contract a condition already guaranteed by law -- her right to drive.
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Saudi Arabia De-Fangs Religious Police But Plans To Enforce Public "Decency"
Saudi Arabia has rendered toothless the once-feared religious police amid a liberalisation drive, but a planned "public decency" law is stoking controversy with some fearing a revival of morality policing.
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"Magical": A Saudi Arabian Woman Drives A Formula One Car As Ban Ends
From the streets of Saudi Arabia to a French track, women are taking the wheel.
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End Of Driving Ban Will Boost Women's Economic Role In Saudi Arabia
The end of a decades-old female driving ban is expected to bring an economic windfall for millions of Saudi women, making it easier for them to work and do business.
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Two More Women Activists Arrested In Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia has arrested two more women's rights activists, in an "unrelenting crackdown" just days before the kingdom ends a decades-long ban on female motorists, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.
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Saudi Women Can Drive At Last As Government Handover Licenses
Saudi Arabia on Monday began issuing its first driving licences to women in decades, state media reported.
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Some Are Paying A High Price For Feminism In The 'New' Saudi Arabia
It was just days before Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's March visit to the United States when Loujain al-Hathloul, one of Saudi Arabia's most high profile feminists, was stopped by security officers as she drove on a highway near her university in Abu Dhabi
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Saudi Arabia Warns Women Not to Join Protest Against Ban on Driving
Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry on Thursday issued a warning to women not to get behind the wheel in defiance of the kingdom's men-only road rules after a renewed social media campaign to challenge the law by driving in public.
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US backs rights of women in ally Saudi to drive
The United States said on Monday it supports the "universal rights" of women to drive in Saudi Arabia, after a weekend protest there saw several women defy the law by taking the steering wheel.
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Saudi authorities warn of punishment for women drivers
Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry has contacted organisers of a campaign to end the ban on women driving and told them they will be punished if they go on defying the male-only road rules, some of the campaign leaders said on Thursday.
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150 Indians registered in drive by mission in Saudi Arabia
Around 150 Indian expatriates registered themselves during a special drive launched today by the Indian Embassy to assist individuals who have overstayed in Saudi Arabia.
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Saudi women driving ban not part of sharia: morality police chief
Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving is not mandated by any text in Sharia, the Islamic legal code which forms the basis for most Saudi law, the head of its morality police told Reuters today.
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Saudi Women Use Wedding Contracts To Assert Right To Drive
Saudi salesman Majd had just begun his wedding preparations when his fiancee sought to enshrine in their marriage contract a condition already guaranteed by law -- her right to drive.
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Saudi Arabia De-Fangs Religious Police But Plans To Enforce Public "Decency"
Saudi Arabia has rendered toothless the once-feared religious police amid a liberalisation drive, but a planned "public decency" law is stoking controversy with some fearing a revival of morality policing.
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"Magical": A Saudi Arabian Woman Drives A Formula One Car As Ban Ends
From the streets of Saudi Arabia to a French track, women are taking the wheel.
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End Of Driving Ban Will Boost Women's Economic Role In Saudi Arabia
The end of a decades-old female driving ban is expected to bring an economic windfall for millions of Saudi women, making it easier for them to work and do business.
-
Two More Women Activists Arrested In Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia has arrested two more women's rights activists, in an "unrelenting crackdown" just days before the kingdom ends a decades-long ban on female motorists, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.
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Saudi Women Can Drive At Last As Government Handover Licenses
Saudi Arabia on Monday began issuing its first driving licences to women in decades, state media reported.
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Some Are Paying A High Price For Feminism In The 'New' Saudi Arabia
It was just days before Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's March visit to the United States when Loujain al-Hathloul, one of Saudi Arabia's most high profile feminists, was stopped by security officers as she drove on a highway near her university in Abu Dhabi
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Saudi Arabia Warns Women Not to Join Protest Against Ban on Driving
Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry on Thursday issued a warning to women not to get behind the wheel in defiance of the kingdom's men-only road rules after a renewed social media campaign to challenge the law by driving in public.
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US backs rights of women in ally Saudi to drive
The United States said on Monday it supports the "universal rights" of women to drive in Saudi Arabia, after a weekend protest there saw several women defy the law by taking the steering wheel.
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Saudi authorities warn of punishment for women drivers
Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry has contacted organisers of a campaign to end the ban on women driving and told them they will be punished if they go on defying the male-only road rules, some of the campaign leaders said on Thursday.
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150 Indians registered in drive by mission in Saudi Arabia
Around 150 Indian expatriates registered themselves during a special drive launched today by the Indian Embassy to assist individuals who have overstayed in Saudi Arabia.
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Saudi women driving ban not part of sharia: morality police chief
Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving is not mandated by any text in Sharia, the Islamic legal code which forms the basis for most Saudi law, the head of its morality police told Reuters today.
