35 percent of female prisoners remain incarcerated in Saudi prisons after finishing their jail terms
This article suggests that 35% of Saudi women in Prisons are there because there’s no male to collect them…
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Human Rights
Human Rights
Discrimination
Arab Women Media Watch Centre in UK mourns Saudi PhD student Nahid Almanea who was stabbed to death.
The University of Essex PhD student, Nahid Almanea, was stabbed 16 times on Tuesday. Her body was repatriated to Saudi Arabia on Saturday. A post-mortem examination in UK revealed that she died from 16 stab wounds to her head, neck, body and... Read more
Discrimination
Drop The A Word! By Sheikha Al Dosary Over the years, I have failed completely to erase the word “Abd” from my family’s dictionary, when talking about black or African people. It is such a frequently used term in Arab society in general and in... Read more
Opinion
By Iqbal Tamimi No one can argue the benefits of introducing distant learning and its positive effect, but what about its effect on the women of Saudi Arabia?
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News
KSA commands 60% of Middle East air charter business, says Private Jet Charter at launch of its Saudi portal
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Herstory
The 33-year-old woman, who can be identified only as Suad, may pay a heavy price for defying her well-connected father and marrying an Italian she met on holiday
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Herstory
On 15 June 2013 the District Court in Al-Khobar sentenced two human rights campaigners, journalists Wajeha Al-Huwaider and journalist Fawzia Al-Oyouni who campaign for women’s human rights, to ten months in... Read more
Herstory
Saudi fashion designer, Rania Gamrawi , used SR500 currency notes worth one million to make a dress she says is intended to mark the Gulf country’s national day
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Herstory
Raha Moharrak has become the first woman from Saudi Arabia to climb Mt. Everest when she made it to the summit yesterday after a grueling climb
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Herstory
Arab Women Media Watch Centre in UK (AWMW) congratulates the 2012 Olof Palme Prize winners, Radhia Nasraoui from Tunisia and Waleed Sami Abu Alkhair from Saudi Arabia both of whom are Arab lawyers, fighting for the freedoms and rights of... Read more