Women's Rights in Saudi Arabia

Women's rights have historically been overlooked by the government in Saudi Arabia. However, as Salman has began to make some changes to the law the public believes things are going to get better for women. In 2017, a law, to be put in place by 2018, was passed to allow women to drive in Saudi Arabia. What the public doesn't realize is everything going on in the background that is still impeding on women's rights. A women named Loujain al-Hathloul is a strong women's rights activist. In 2014, she drove into Saudi Arabia using a United Arab Emirates and was arrested. United Arab Emirates licenses are usually valid in Saudi Arabia but because of Saudi Arabia's old laws against women drivers her actions were considered illegal. She, along with other women's right activists she was working with, was arrested again just months before the driving band was lifted in 2018. During this time she says she was tortured with waterboarding, beatings, confinement, and electric shock. The other women arrested with her have reported that the same things happened to them. In face of all this torture Loujain is still not willing to sit quietly. This is a perfect example to show the rest of the world how to Saudi government treats women. No outside countries have real legal power of the choices made by another government but they do have the power to put immense pressure on the government to make a change. Just as different declarations have done in the past, such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, where an agreement is made that something is morally wrong and therefore no human should participate in that action. These principles need to be pushed harder on to the rulers of countries like Saudi Arabia who are denying some people of their basic human rights in order for real changes to happen.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/opinion/sunday/loujain-al-hathloul-saudi.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FHuman%2BRights%2Band%2BHuman%2BRights%2BViolations&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=6&pgtype=collection

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