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Welcoming working conditions encouraging more Indian women seeking employment in Saudi Arabia: OfficialSaudi Arabia is increasingly attractive to Indian women seeking jobs. Labour reforms and supportive measures create better working conditio...- The controversy over playing the WTA finals in Saudi ArabiaJudy Murray and others are debating the decision to hold the WTA Finals in Saudi Arabia starting Saturday. They see potential in promoting ...
- Saudi snitching app turns citizens into social media policeJust weeks after the verdict against Salma al-Shehab - a doctoral candidate at Britain's Leeds University - rights groups say another woman...
- Passport to acceptance? LGBTQ+ travellers wary about gender-neutral IDsThe United States issued its first "X" passport last year to Dana Zzyym, who is non-binary and intersex - born with atypical sex characteri...
- Progress for Saudi women is uneven, despite cultural changes and more jobsSince Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman became Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader more than four years ago, he has promised new opportunities fo...
- Justin Bieber performs at Saudi F1 race in front of packed crowd despite boycott callsBieber has performed some of his most popular hits on stage to excited fans.
- 'Marriage without strings': Saudi Arabia confronts rise of 'misyar'The practice, usually a temporary alliance in which the wife waives some conventional marriage rights such as cohabitation and financial su...
- Saudi women can join armed forces in latest widening of rightsThis move is the latest in a series of measures aimed at increasing the rights of women in the kingdom. The plan was first announced in 201...
- After broad crackdown, Saudi moves to free some dissentersIn a broad clampdown under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler, the kingdom has moved against academics, clerics, journali...
- Jailed Saudi activist's sister urges world leaders to pressurise G20 host Saudi Arabia for her freedomSaudi Arabia, which is frequently accused of human rights abuses, is the first Arab nation to host the annual gathering of leaders of the w...
- Human Rights Watch urges G20 to press Saudis to free illegally detained activistsAs current chair of the G20 major economies, Riyadh has tried to repair its image after global outrage at the 2018 murder of journalist Jam...
- G20 women's forum urged to press hosts Saudi on rightsAs current chair of the Group of 20 major economies, Riyadh has tried to improve its image after global outrage at the 2018 murder of journ...
- Some Saudi men still bristle at women drivingThe world's last such ban had been justified on a variety of religious and cultural grounds such as the proposition that women driving woul...
- Midnight cheers and disbelief as Saudi Arabia ends ban on women drivingTeenagers gathered on Riyadh’s main boulevard to gawk. Men cracked jokes about how lucky they were to no longer have to chauffeur their wiv...
- Picture of Saudi princess on magazine cover sparks controversyPrincess Hayfa bint Abdullah al-Saud is in the driver's seat wearing leather gloves and high heels.
- Saudi women to enter stadiums for first time to watch soccerThe move is Saudi Arabia's first social reform planned for this year giving women greater rights.
- Why Sophia is in newsSophia said she wanted to use her artificial intelligence to help humans 'live a better life', and that 'I will do much [sic] best to make ...
- Carmakers rush to put Saudi women behind wheels of their modelsJoining the chorus are automakers looking to capitalise on the move, racing each other to get their first words out to woo prospective fema...
- India women migrants vulnerable to exploitation in Gulf: UNThe report was also critical of provision that made it mandatory for female emigrants from India to have completed matriculation or be of 3...
- Survey on global gender relations throws up a few surprisesThe most amazing tidbit, relatedly, has to do with our own saddi Dilli. Which, we are told, is the best place in the whole wide world for w...
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