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Youssef took part in numerous driving campaigns, including a widely publicized effort in 2013 when dozens of women across the kingdom uploaded videos to YouTube of themselves driving in Saudi Arabia.
A year after Saudi Arabia's women won the right to drive, life hasn't improved. Beirut, Lebanon -- In June 2018, the future seemed a little brighter for Saudi Arabian women. Home to one of the ...
Saudi Arabia: End Driving Ban for Women . On October 26, Women Are Set to Defy Prohibition and Drive . Share this via Facebook Share this via Bluesky Share this via X Share this via WhatsApp Share ...
On Sunday, Saudi Arabia will end the world’s only ban on women drivers. For the first time in its history, women will be able to drive themselves legally through the ultra-conservative kingdom ...
Saudi driving activists told Human Rights Watch that al-Hathloul drove to the Saudi border from Abu Dhabi on November 30 and attempted to cross into Saudi Arabia, but authorities confiscated her ...
The women who fought the driving ban are now in jail. Although public dissent is often suppressed in Saudi Arabia, there have been women who have struggled against gender injustice and discrimination.
JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia — Fatima Salem giggles with hesitation when it’s her turn to drive through a small parking lot lined with bright orange cones and arrows. Like millions of Saudi women, sh… ...
Those women could simply start driving the vehicles they already own. Saudi women take part in a Glowork exhibition in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Sept. 28, 2017. Reuters/Faisal Al Nasser ...
Manal al-Sharif, a women's rights activist from Saudi Arabia and one of the leaders of the Women2Drive campaign after she was arrested for driving in 2011, tweeted Tuesday that the nation "will ...
Saudi Arabia women's driving ban lifted: With excitement and apprehension, Saudi women gear up for first day on the road. Deeply symbolic move granting women greater independence celebrated across ...
On Sunday, Saudi Arabia will end the world's only ban on women drivers. For the first time in its history, women will be able to drive themselves legally through the ultra-conservative kingdom's ...