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Saudi Arabia to allow women to obtain driving licences
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Sep 26, 2017 08:28pm |
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| Author | Martin Chulov |
| News Date | Tuesday, September 26, 2017 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Women in Saudi Arabia have been granted the right to drive, overturning a cornerstone of Saudi conservatism that had been a cause célèbre for activists demanding reforms in the fundamentalist kingdom.
King Salman ordered the reform in a royal decree delivered on Tuesday night, requesting that drivers’ licences be issued to women who wanted them.
Following the decree, women will no longer need permission from a legal guardian to get a licence and will not need a guardian in the car when they drive, said the new Saudi ambassador to Washington DC, Prince Khalid bin Salman bin Abdulaziz.
“I think our leadership understands our society is ready,” he told reporters.
Asked by reporters if Saudi Arabia planned to relax the guardianship laws, or take any other steps to expand women’s rights, Salman would not comment.
The US state department welcomed the move as “a great step in the right direction”. |
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