Saudi Arabian women can now travel without male approval

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New rules announced on Friday are a potential game-changer for women's rights in the kingdom.

Saudi Arabia has published new laws that loosen restrictions on women by allowing any citizen to apply for a passport and travel freely, ending a long-standing guardianship policy that gave men control over women.

Women wait in line to ride go carts at a road safety event for female drivers launched at the Riyadh Park Mall. Saudi women have only been allowed to drive since last year.Still in place, however, are rules that require male consent for a woman to leave prison, exit a domestic abuse shelter or marry. Women, unlike men, still cannot pass on citizenship to their children and cannot provide consent for their children to marry.

Esraa Albuti, an executive director at Ernst & Young in Saudi Arabia, displays her brand new driver's licence in June 2018.In a lengthy study of Saudi male guardianship laws in 2016, Human Rights Watch criticised it as "system that was ripe for abuse."

 

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Hahahaha.... what a backward Bedouin place that is

They shouldn’t need a males approval to begin with

Welcome to the 21st century. !!

Next they'll want the vote !

Islam is the most feminist religion

Well, I suppose it's a start. Come on ladies, keep chipping away at getting more freedom, you can do it.

Wow haven’t they come a long way

What’s the world coming to ?

2019..... 😔😔😔

wow -- and it's only 2019

Hallelujah

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