Category: Women’s Rights Matter

Saudi Arabia: In Response to Calls to Improve Status of Saudi Women, Saudi Princess Launches ‘My Guardian Knows What’s Best For Me’ Campaign

MEMRI reports:

— “Recently, Saudi women activists, led by Saudi Princess Jawaher bint Jalawi, launched a campaign called ‘My Guardian Knows What’s Best For Me,’ calling for redefining the term ‘guardian’ and for opposing calls by those with liberal views to improve the status of women in Saudi Arabia.”

— “Princess Jawaher’s campaign is a response to the struggle launched in July 2009 by Saudi women’s rights activist Wajeha Al-Huweidar calling for abolishing the mahram (‘guardian’) law, which requires women to obtain the approval of a male relative for nearly any move they make in their lives. As part of her campaign, Al-Huweidar, together with her colleagues, went to the King Fahd Bridge, which joins Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, and demanded to leave the country without a guardian’s approval.”

— Female Saudi Columnist to Prince Nayef: Why Do Saudi Women Need Guardians?
— Saudi women treated like children

— “Perpetual Minors: Human Rights Abuses Stemming from Male Guardianship and Sex Segregation in Saudi Arabia”

Other Reports:

Saudi Arabia: Extremist “Police” to “Set Up Human Rights Unit” — Woman Rights Activist Calls It “Biggest Joke in History”

Saudi Arabia: Extremists in Saudi Arabia Set Fire to Culture Club to Prevent Woman Poet’s Public Appearance

Saudi Arabia: Philippine Woman Imprisoned for Being Rape Victim “Under Shariah Law”

Saudi Arabia: “Save the child bride”

Saudi Child Bride Turned Back Over to 80-Year-Old Husband

Saudi Arabia: Women Hold University Protest

Escaping Saudi Arabia’s gilded cage — on oppression of women in Saudi Arabia

“Saudi Arabia — The World’s Largest Women’s Prison”

UK: Ten Saudis seek asylum after princess is allowed to stay

Saudi religious police blamed in ‘honour’ killing of sisters

Saudi Arabia: Brother kills two sisters in Social Affairs shelter over “honor”

Saudi Arabia: Abused woman flees shelter; shelter “accused of helping woman flee”

Saudi Arabia: Child Marriage Not Prohibited Under “Sharia Law”

Saudi “Human Rights Commission” Defends Extremist Oppression of Women

Saudi woman minister needs permission to be on TV

Saudi Arabia: Camera phones seized from female teachers, schoolgirls

“Saudi Mufti: Women’s Sports Are Against the Will of Allah”

(Saudi Arabia) Debate in Saudi Arabia over Women in Media

Saudi Arabia: Fifty-year-old Saudi divorces child bride

Saudi Arabia: Extremist Law Says Beaten Woman Must Pay Husband for Divorce

Saudi Extremist Court Approve SMS Divorce

Saudi Arabia: Woman Arrested for Being in Shopping Mall with Man

Saudi extremist “religious police” drag woman by hair out of shelter

Saudi Arabia: 75 year old woman lashed, press concerned about men

(UK) Tulay Goren Case — “Honour killing” mother Hanim Goren accused of drugging daughter
— “She has been giving evidence against her husband”

— Mum denies ‘honour killing’

UK: Wife in Tulay Goren ‘honour killing’ trial breaks decades of silence

— Daily Mail report: “‘Be a man and tell the truth’: Mother pleads with husband to ‘admit honour killing’ of daughter”

— Father accused of murdering daughter in ‘honour killing’ collapses in court as his wife gives evidence against him – Turkish Kurd Mehmet Goren

— Honour case man ‘beat daughter’

— I found my daughter tied up, mother tells ‘honour killing’ jury

— Mother in Tulay Goren ‘honour killing’ tells of daughter’s last day

— ‘Honour killing’ mother’s court outburst

— Mum: ‘What have you done?’

— ‘Honour killing’ mother challenges husband in court

(UK) How ‘family councils’ help plan honour killings
— Yakin Erturk, former UN expert on violence against women, gives a insight on barbaric practices during Tulay Goren trial