Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Sharifa Ghanem – Bikyamasr – Thursday, 09 February 2012 (originally published 05 Feb) DUBAI: A Saudi Arabia woman who pressed the government last year after she drove a vehicle in the country has filed a lawsuit against the government for refusing her a driver’s license. Manal al-Sharif, the mastermind behind the Women 2 Drive campaign, [...]
Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson – NPR – 11 November 2011 (originally published 10 Nov) Saudi women are getting conflicting messages from their government about whether it intends to expand their rights. They received a boost from King Abdullah, who pledged to give them more political power in the coming years. But new Crown Prince Nayef [...]
Donna Abu-Nasr – Bloomberg news – Monday, 27 June, 2011 (originally published 22 June) A group campaigning to end Saudi Arabia’s ban on driving by women called on Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. (7270)’s Subaru cars unit to pull out of the kingdom until the prohibition is lifted. The announcement yesterday followed U.S. Secretary of State [...]
Isobel Coleman – Council on Foreign Relations – Wednesday, 15 June, 2011 Last month, women activists in Saudi Arabia launched the Women2Drive campaign on Facebook, calling on Saudi women with international or foreign drivers’ licenses to get behind the wheel of a car on June 17 and demand the right to drive. Saudi Arabia has the [...]
Max Fisher – The Atlantic – Tuesday, 7 June, 2011 Improving Saudi gender rights, some of the worst in the world, could be one of the Arab Spring’s small but important accomplishments Six months in, it’s still unclear whether the still-ongoing demonstrations and battles of the Arab Spring will produce a net positive or negative [...]
