only country in the world in which women were forbidden from driving motor vehicles. The Women to Drive Movement (Arabic: قيادة المرأة في السعودية, romanized: qiadat...
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Feminism in Saudi Arabia (category Women in Saudi Arabia)
include the women to drive movement and the anti male-guardianship campaign. Madawi al-Rasheed argued in 2019 that the Saudi feminist movement was "the most...
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streets," a reference to the Women2Drive movement, a campaign for Saudi women's right to drive that called for Saudi women to start driving starting...
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to target and repress women's rights activists and movements. Prominent feminist campaigns include the Women to Drive Movement and the anti male-guardianship...
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2018–2019 Saudi crackdown on feminists (category Women's rights in Saudi Arabia)
feminists consisted of waves of arrests of women's rights activists in Saudi Arabia involved in the women to drive movement and the Saudi anti male-guardianship...
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Arabia, to be carried out by beheading and crucifixion (in that order). Manal al-Sharif and Samar Badawi, active in the women to drive movement, announced...
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Saudi anti male-guardianship campaign (category Women's rights in Saudi Arabia)
2018–2019 there was a crackdown on women's rights activists in Saudi Arabia engaged in the women to drive movement and the Saudi anti male-guardianship...
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the song was shot in Ouarzazate, Morocco in solidarity with the women to drive movement, premiering on 3 February 2012. Directed by Romain Gavras, the...
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Loujain al-Hathloul (category 20th-century Saudi Arabian women)
British Columbia. Al-Hathloul is known both for her role in the women to drive movement and in opposing the Saudi male guardianship system. On 1 December...
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Social media's role in the Arab Spring (section Origins of the social media movement in Arab nations)
spread the call to protest online with the help of a Facebook campaign, "We Are All Khaled Said", organized by the April 6 Youth Movement, Egypt's "largest...
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and several other women's rights advocates involved in the women to drive movement and the anti male-guardianship campaign. Speaking to the BBC's Newshour...
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The Chipko movement (Hindi: चिपको आन्दोलन, lit. 'hugging movement') is a forest conservation movement in India. Opposed to commercial logging and the...
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Saudi Women to drive movement. Women were legally allowed to start driving on 24 June 2018, and Uber and Careem women drivers were able to start working...
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Manal al-Sharif (category Saudi Arabian women activists)
[maˈnaːl aʃːaˈriːf]; born 25 April 1979) is a Saudi women's rights activist who helped start a right-to-drive campaign in 2011. Wajeha al-Huwaider filmed al-Sharif...
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romanized: at-Tajammu’u al-Yamanī lil-Iṣlāḥ), is a Yemeni Sunni Islamist movement established in 1990 by Abdullah ibn Husayn al-Ahmar, Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar...
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Upon ascending to the throne, Mohammed initially introduced a number of reforms and changed the family code, Mudawana, granting women in Morocco more...
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May and June, Manal al-Sharif and other women organised a women's right-to-drive campaign, with the main action to take place on 17 June. Al-Sharif drove...
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shootings as responses to unidentified gunmen who had shot first. Manal al-Sharif and Samar Badawi, active in the women to drive movement, announced that they...
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weeks, with attempts by police to quiet the unrest serving only to fuel what was quickly becoming a violent and deadly movement. After Bouazizi's death, the...
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in which a protest movement and subsequent insurgency succeeded in capturing Yemen's capital, Sanaa, causing President al-Hadi to resign and flee the...
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crackdown on women involved in the women to drive movement and the anti male-guardianship campaign and their male supporters. The women were detained...
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figures of this movement in the U.S. during the 19th century: the "triumvirate" of the drive to gain voting rights for women. Women's suffrage activists...
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The women's liberation movement (WLM) was a political alignment of women and feminist intellectualism. It emerged in the late 1960s and continued into...
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of political parties in Saudi Arabia Hizb ut-Tahrir Muslim Brotherhood Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia Laessing, Ulf (10 February 2011). "Pro-reform...
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Amendment to the United States Constitution. The demand for women's suffrage began to gather strength in the 1840s, emerging from the broader movement for women's...
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United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 (category International reactions to the Arab Spring)
Mrs. Viotti further observed that ...an important aspect of the popular movement in North Africa and the Middle East is their spontaneous, homegrown nature...
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Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (category Ambassadors of Tunisia to Poland)
the disabled. She was also the president of the Arab Women Organization, which works to empower women in Arab states. She has three children: Nesrine, Halima...
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The Occupy movement was an international populist socio-political movement that expressed opposition to social and economic inequality and to the perceived...
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for future testimonials about a strengthening borderless digital movement that is set to continually disrupt powerful institutions, be they corporate enterprises...
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Mohamed ElBaradei (category Recipients of the Grand Decoration with Sash for Services to the Republic of Austria)
[that he should represent] this movement. The movement is represented by itself, and it will [appoint] a committee. . .to [delegate its representatives]...
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