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Saudi women are officially allowed to get behind the wheel, after a decades-old driving ban was lifted. The change was announced last September and Saudi Arabia issued the first licences to...
Saudi Arabia granted women the right to drive one year ago, a historic move that cracked open a window to new freedoms for women who have long lived under repressive laws. The measure was...
On 30 November 2014, Loujain Al-Hathloul made her move toward the Women to drive Movement in Saudi Arabia. As known, Saudi women are not able to have a driver's license, but Al-Hathloul previously obtained a driver's license from the United Arab Emirates.
It has been five years since Jawhara al-Wabili became one of Saudi Arabia's first women drivers – a reform she saw as revolutionary, even as some activists dismissed it as window-dressing.
In June 2018, Saudi Arabia finally put an end to its legal ban on women driving, opening the way for millions of new drivers to navigate across a country three times bigger than Texas.
Women in Saudi Arabia have publicly campaigned to lift the ban on them driving since 1990, when around 40 women drove their cars down a main street in Riyadh, the capital. They were stopped by police and a number of them were suspended from work.
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman decreed this week that women will be allowed to drive, ending the kingdom’s status as the only country in the world to prohibit women from driving. But the road to...
Women in Saudi Arabia are hitting the road Sunday after the kingdom lifted its longstanding ban on women driving.
Katherine Zoepf on Saudi Arabia’s recent decision to overturn its ban on women driving, and what it signals about the state of the kingdom.
A prominent Saudi female activist, who campaigned for women's right to drive, has been sentenced to more than five years in prison. Loujain al-Hathloul, 31, has already been in a maximum...