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This is a serious blow, particularly when you remember that the presence of women isn’t a problem for every Saudi municipal council; the government’s decision to segregate endorsed the position of extreme men.
The foreign minister promised to develop a feminist foreign policy agenda and tried to do so in the case of Saudi Arabia. She got blow-back instead. Now, some who knew Margot Wallstrom as a U.N. envoy fear a major human rights opportunity is lost.
Being both mother and father to the children is difficult, says an unemployed man whose wife works as a domestic helper in Dubai. The feminization of migration leaves more families affected by what one researcher calls the commodification of motherhood.
A Saudi runner is training for the 2016 Olympics and an entrepreneur has climbed Mt. Everest. But for many girls and women, physical restrictions in the conservative kingdom expose them to a slew of medical dangers, including Vitamin D deficiency, breast cancer, obesity and depression.
A U.N. specialist on population told an international parliamentarians’ conference that the members had a duty to improve the status of women. In India, 254 members of a control group untested for cervical cancer died. The U.S. funded the research.
Women’s wages have dramatically increased the U.S. gross domestic product over the past three decades by the trillions. Also this week, female veterans experience more difficulties than men when returning to civilian life.
The U.S. Supreme Court OK’d the law banning possession of guns by people convicted of domestic violence. Also this week, in Michigan, the governor said the state will not recognize 300 same-sex marriages performed between a court ruling and its appeal.
“I want to feel like I am a Saudi citizen, now I just feel like I am a follower of a man,” says a Saudi woman who sympathizes with the petition to abolish male guardianship. Two female members of the Shura Council told a signatory that the petition has been sent to a human rights committee.
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The Texas law banning same-sex marriage loses a round in court. Also this week, Saudi human rights activists are advocating the government find Saudi fathers of Syrian refugees and document the citizenship of the refugees.
Somayya Jabarti is the first woman in Saudi Arabia to head a newspaper. Also this week, Syrian women who have fled to Lebanon are suffering severe stress and health problems.