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  • FIFA President offers support to women’s football development during Saudi Arabian visit

    FIFA President Gianni Infantino met with members of the women’s football development department of the Saudi Arabian Football Federation (SAFF) and with members of the Saudi Arabia national women’s futsal team during his visit to the country.

  • Saudia to hire 50 Saudi women as flight attendants

    Saudi Arabian Airlines announced the hiring of 50 Saudi women as flight attendants. Speaking to Okaz/Saudi Gazette, the national carrier sources confirmed that 50 airhostess positions have been allocated for female citizens in the first phase to work in Jeddah and Riyadh stations. They will take up job after undergoing training for two months.

  • Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul sentenced to prison, but could soon be free

    Despite the years-long sentence, however, al-Hathloul could be released from prison as soon as March. Her sister said the sentence is partially suspended and she will get credit for time already served. Once she is released, she also faces a five-year travel ban. Women's rights groups, including the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, have called for al-Hathloul's release.

  • Saudi court hands prison sentence to women’s rights activist – local media

    A Saudi court on Monday sentenced prominent women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul to five years and eight months in prison, local media reported, in a trial that has drawn international condemnation and as Riyadh faces new U.S. scrutiny.

  • Saudi women take to the skies as flight attendants for the first time

    Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) over the weekend opened the door for Saudi women to work as flight attendants for the first time. The kingdom’s flag carrier clarified in a statement on Friday that Saudi female applicants must be high school graduates between the ages of 20 and 30, with the “required level of the English language,” that their weight be “proportional to the height in accordance with the standards of Saudi Airlines” and that they pass a medical examination.

  • Princess Reema bint Bandar Al Saud: Saudi Women Have a Bright Future

    To overturn decades of systemic social, cultural, and economic inequity, it’s not enough just for governments to implement new rules, regulations, and laws (which alone don’t change behavior) – private sector attitudes and society’s perceptions must change as well. We need a new mindset; one where building more equitable and tolerant societies is a collective ambition, a shared responsibility, and a common obligation of citizenship. And we need to do it for the right reasons, not as an ambition to “Westernize” but as an ambition to evolve and advance, while maintaining the traditions and beliefs of our beautiful and rich culture.

  • KSA’s REDF empowers 73,000 Saudi women to own homes in 2020

    Saudi Arabia’s Real Estate Development Fund (REDF) – which provides diversified and balanced home financing options and integrates with the KSA Ministry of Housing’s programmes – has benefited more than 73,800 Saudi women with real estate loans between January and October 2020, in line with the firm’s mission to empower women to purchase homes of their own.

  • Saudi Arabia urged to release women’s rights activists by European envoys

    Seven European human rights ambassadors criticized Saudi Arabia on Sunday over the continued detention of at least five women's rights activists, including Loujain al-Hathloul, whose case has been referred to a special court for terrorism offenses. Hathloul appeared in a Saudi court on Wednesday, as her trial was scheduled to start after 900 days in pre-trial detention.

  • Saudi women’s rights activist’s trial moved to terrorism court

    Her trial was expected to begin on Wednesday, but the judge’s decision to hand over her case to the “specialised criminal court” means further delays, and represents an escalation of the state’s case against her. It is unclear if the cases of the other women in the dock have also been moved.

  • The first women’s football league in Saudi Arabia has officially launched

    The new league includes a total of 24 teams with over 600 players. And the teams are located in three different cities in the Kingdom – Dammam, Jeddah and Riyadh. Excitingly, seven matches took place in Saudi Arabia last week in Jeddah and Riyadh.