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UN inactive in protecting Saudi women, a women activist says
19-6-2018
The executive director of Women’s March Global, Lara Stein, says the United Nation’s inaction in the face of arrest of Saudi women activists is irresponsible and dangerous for all the Saudi women. In an article published on the Newsweek website, Stein urged all the global community to join the Movement and call for freeing Saudi women, reminding that the UN was founded on principles of international cooperation and human rights, yet it has done nothing to stop the Kingdom from depriving women of their most basic rights. Stein warned that detaining Saudi women advocating the rights of their peers to drive sends a message that Saudi women remain only half citizens, pointing to the system of male guardianship which makes women vulnerable to violence and exploitation at the hands of their guardians. Stein revealed that Women’s March Global has launched a campaign at the end of May to release Saudi women’s rights activists, mentioning many Saudi women who have been forced to marry or have tried to escape by seeking asylum abroad or who have risked their safety to speak out about the arrests. She disclosed that Saudi women who fled the country have joined the Free Saudi Women Coalition (FSW), a coalition of activists from around the world who gathered some 190,000 signatures to push the UN to intervene for the release of women detainees in the Kingdom. (Al Diyar, June 18)
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