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'Your Mustang Awaits': Ford's Sweet Surprise For Saudi Woman Activist
Ford has decided to present a Saudi Arabian activist with her dream car, after a landmark decree allowing women to drive for the first time in the ultra-conservative kingdom's history.
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Saudi Women Can Drive At Last But Some Say Price Is Silence
Saudi Arabian women were given the right to drive last week after nearly three decades of campaigning, but some activists say that breakthrough has come with a price: their silence
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After Saudi Lifts Ban, University To Open Driving School For Women
A university in Saudi Arabia has said it will open a driving school for women, in a first for the ultra-conservative country after a ban on women driving was lifted.
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Saudi Authorities Pursue Twitter User Over Women's Driving Threat
Saudi Arabia's public prosecutor issued an arrest warrant on Saturday for a Twitter user who called for anyone who supports women driving to be killed, days after a royal decree ended a long-time ban on women taking the wheel
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Moving Fast and Breaking Things, Saudi Prince Tests Public
The real weight of public opinion in Saudi Arabia lies among its young people, an internet generation eager for social change. Or at least, so says one member of that cohort.
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Saudi Arabia Lifts Ban On Women Driving
For more than 25 years, women activists have campaigned to be allowed to drive, defiantly taking to the road, petitioning the king and posting videos of themselves behind the wheel on social media.
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Here's How Women In Saudi Arabia Reacted To News That They'll Finally Be Allowed To Drive
In 1990, Madeha al Ajroush and 46 other women did something revolutionary. The group dismissed their drivers and got behind the wheels of cars in downtown Riyadh. "We just drove the car," she told NPR years later. "It was exhilarating. It was great."
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Saudi Government Says It Will Allow Women To Drive
Women in Saudi Arabia will be permitted to drive in the kingdom, according to a royal decree issued in Riyadh on Tuesday that overturned one of the most widely criticized restrictions on human rights.
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Saudi Arabia Allows Women to Contest Local Elections
Saudi Arabia allowed women to register to stand in local elections on Sunday, in a historic first for the ultra-conservative kingdom.
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Saudi Arabia Warns Women Not to Join Protest Against Ban on Driving
Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry on Thursday issued a warning to women not to get behind the wheel in defiance of the kingdom's men-only road rules after a renewed social media campaign to challenge the law by driving in public.
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Saudi Arabia Activists Rev up Women's Right-to-Drive Campaign
Activists in Saudi Arabia are revving up a right-to-drive campaign using social media in the world's only country that bans women from getting behind the wheel, a campaigner said on Thursday.
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Saudi government tries to thwart women driving campaign
Saudi Arabia's government sought to snuff out a campaign to end a ban on women driving, warning on Wednesday it would use force to stop any protest aimed at overturning the ban.
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'Your Mustang Awaits': Ford's Sweet Surprise For Saudi Woman Activist
Ford has decided to present a Saudi Arabian activist with her dream car, after a landmark decree allowing women to drive for the first time in the ultra-conservative kingdom's history.
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Saudi Women Can Drive At Last But Some Say Price Is Silence
Saudi Arabian women were given the right to drive last week after nearly three decades of campaigning, but some activists say that breakthrough has come with a price: their silence
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After Saudi Lifts Ban, University To Open Driving School For Women
A university in Saudi Arabia has said it will open a driving school for women, in a first for the ultra-conservative country after a ban on women driving was lifted.
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Saudi Authorities Pursue Twitter User Over Women's Driving Threat
Saudi Arabia's public prosecutor issued an arrest warrant on Saturday for a Twitter user who called for anyone who supports women driving to be killed, days after a royal decree ended a long-time ban on women taking the wheel
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Moving Fast and Breaking Things, Saudi Prince Tests Public
The real weight of public opinion in Saudi Arabia lies among its young people, an internet generation eager for social change. Or at least, so says one member of that cohort.
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Saudi Arabia Lifts Ban On Women Driving
For more than 25 years, women activists have campaigned to be allowed to drive, defiantly taking to the road, petitioning the king and posting videos of themselves behind the wheel on social media.
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Here's How Women In Saudi Arabia Reacted To News That They'll Finally Be Allowed To Drive
In 1990, Madeha al Ajroush and 46 other women did something revolutionary. The group dismissed their drivers and got behind the wheels of cars in downtown Riyadh. "We just drove the car," she told NPR years later. "It was exhilarating. It was great."
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Saudi Government Says It Will Allow Women To Drive
Women in Saudi Arabia will be permitted to drive in the kingdom, according to a royal decree issued in Riyadh on Tuesday that overturned one of the most widely criticized restrictions on human rights.
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Saudi Arabia Allows Women to Contest Local Elections
Saudi Arabia allowed women to register to stand in local elections on Sunday, in a historic first for the ultra-conservative kingdom.
-
Saudi Arabia Warns Women Not to Join Protest Against Ban on Driving
Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry on Thursday issued a warning to women not to get behind the wheel in defiance of the kingdom's men-only road rules after a renewed social media campaign to challenge the law by driving in public.
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Saudi Arabia Activists Rev up Women's Right-to-Drive Campaign
Activists in Saudi Arabia are revving up a right-to-drive campaign using social media in the world's only country that bans women from getting behind the wheel, a campaigner said on Thursday.
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Saudi government tries to thwart women driving campaign
Saudi Arabia's government sought to snuff out a campaign to end a ban on women driving, warning on Wednesday it would use force to stop any protest aimed at overturning the ban.
