Showing posts with label Women's Rights in Saudi Arabia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Women's Rights in Saudi Arabia. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

The 51% - Outrage as Saudi Arabia Given UN Women's Rights Rôle


The UN has elected Saudi Arabia to the UN women's rights commission, but does the move contradict the aims of the commitee itself? Annette Young speaks to Adam Coogle in this edition of The 51%

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Thursday, April 30, 2009

50-Year-old Divorces Child Bride?

REUTERS INDIA: JEDDAH - A 50-year old Saudi man has agreed to divorce his 9-year-old bride, media reported on Thursday, after the marriage drew international criticism.

The decision, reported by newspapers Alwatan and Al-Riyadh, came after months of court hearings, criticism from the United Nations and an international media frenzy about Saudi Arabia's human rights practices.

"This is a good step and I think the man did it because he was in a lot of pressure from everyone," Wajeha Al-Huaider, founder of the Group for Women's Rights in Saudi Arabia, told Reuters by telephone.

Al-Huaider, who campaigned for the child, said she hoped the pressure generated by the case would eventually lead to a law banning child marriages. >>> | Friday, May 1, 2009