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  • For the first time, Saudi women stand guard in Mecca during hajj

    Since April, dozens of female soldiers have become part of the security services that monitor pilgrims in Mecca and Medina, the birth places of Islam. Dressed in a military khaki uniform, with a hip-length jacket, loose trousers and a black beret over a veil covering her hair, Mona spends her shifts roaming in the Grand Mosque in Mecca.

  • For the first time, Saudi women stand guard in Mecca during haj

    Since April, dozens of female soldiers have become part of the security services that monitor pilgrims in Mecca and Medina, the birth places of Islam. Dressed in a military khaki uniform, with a hip-length jacket, loose trousers and a black beret over a veil covering her hair, Mona spends her shifts roaming in the Grand Mosque in Mecca.

  • 59% women among 142,335 Saudis hired in first half of 2021

    The report showed that the highest number of beneficiaries is in the medium-sized enterprises with more than 67,000 Saudi men and women while the number of employees hired in small enterprises reached almost 26,000, and the number of beneficiaries in micro-enterprises has exceeded 8,800.

  • Princess Reema tells Saudi women entrepreneurs to dream big

    This workshop was part of the Igniting Women’s Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Saudi Arabia program and was led by the Atlantic Council’s empowerME Initiative in partnership with the US Mission to Saudi Arabia, the American Chamber of Commerce Saudi Arabia, and Quantum Leaps. The program is bringing US entrepreneurs, experts, and business leaders together with their Saudi counterparts to build relationships, share knowledge, and develop partnership opportunities via hybrid workshops and networking sessions.

  • Two Saudi women’s rights activists released from prison

    Two Saudi women’s rights campaigners have been released from prison, three years after a sweeping crackdown by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman targeting female activists who’d peacefully advocated for greater freedoms, rights groups said Sunday. It now appears that all the women’s rights activists detained in the 2018 sweep have now been released from prison, although the status of one woman remains unclear.

  • Driving ambition: Saudi women reflect on three years at the wheel

    “I bought my dream car, drove in my home city and I am pursuing my career all on my own. We are a big family – we don’t always have a driver – and I cannot depend on my brothers to take me everywhere as they are married.”

  • Meet the trail-blazing Saudi women changing perceptions of female bikers

    It has been three years since the ban on women driving in Saudi was lifted, and while many have taken to the road in their cars, some are choosing the greater adrenalin rush of motorbikes. When the news came that the ban would be lifted, Fatimah, a dentist from Riyadh, immediately started asking if riding motorbikes would also be allowed.

  • Saudi Arabia allows women to perform haj without male guardian

    Saudi Arabia’s ministry of haj and umrah said women can register for the haj without a mahram, or male guardian, as the country continues to give women more rights and freedoms. “Those wishing to perform the haj will have to register individually. Women can register without a mahram (male guardian) along with other women,” said the ministry in a tweet on Sunday (June 13).

  • Saudi women can now live without male guardian

    Male guardians will no longer be able to pursue legal claims against women under their guardianship who choose to live alone, after an article in the draconian "absenteeism" legislation was scrapped, Saudi-based  Makkah newspaper reported.

  • Saudi Arabia allows adult women to live independently without male guardian approval

    According to the report, Saudi legal authorities removed paragraph (b) from Article 169 of the "Law of Procedure before Sharia Courts" which stated that an adult single, divorced, or widowed woman would be handed over to her male guardian. Instead, it was replaced with an amendment which states: "An adult woman has the right to choose where to live. A woman’s guardian can report her only if he has evidence proving she committed a crime."