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Anger Online As 90 Year Old Saudi Man 90s Marries A 15-Year-Old Girl
A 90-year-old Saudi Arabian man is suing the family of his 15-year-old bride after she shut herself in her bedroom on their wedding night. She locked the door from the inside so that he could not enter. Two days later she fled to her parents’ home.
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Now Saudi Husbands Can Electronically Track Their Wives!
No need to worry for the sheikhs. Now they will be able to keep an electronic track of their cars as well as their wives! Isn’t technology just grand? It sure helps one sleep in peace at night, knowing all the prized possessions are in their rightful place!
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Chris Brown Cancels Concert in South America After Protests Over Rihanna Attack
Singer Chris Brown has backed out of his concert in Guyana, South America, following local protests by women’s rights groupsagainst his physical assault on ex-girlfriend, Rihanna. The concert was scheduled for December 26th.
International Hijab day-The right to Choose! (Video)
Since 2004, September 4th has been celebrated as International Hijab Day world wide. The Assembly for the Protection of Hijab declared the day to celebrates the Muslim women’s right to wear hijab and cover up according to their religious norm.
Women Know Your Limit!
This is a funny video, full of humor and satire. It shows how women were meant to be once upon a long-gone-time – unfortunately, it is not so.
Decades have passed, women have more access than ever to education, they have freedom to work and can spend a life they would like to, but they still have to stay a step behind to be socially accepted as proper women – anything other than that is brazen and unwomanly. Even now, in the 21st century, it is not largely a practice but rather a state of mind, something embedded in the subconscious. A large majority of the world still expects a woman to be docile and dependant. As unfortunate as it may sound, a woman must still know her place.
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Princess Ameerah Al Taweel – The unusual Saudi Princess
There are many Saudi princesses that one would never hear about. After all it’s Saudi Arabia we are talking about, a country which is a tale of a life behind the veil. Princess Ameerah Al Taweel, wife of Prince AlWaleed Bin Talal, stands out as a social and cultural anomaly to this preconceived prototype of Saudi women. A commoner, who married a prince, is now turning out to be an emerging iconic public figure. Her humanitarian and philanthropic efforts spread wide globally. Especially, her efforts towards the empowerment of women in Saudi Arabia. She has spoken out publicly in several International channels and publications and has also spoken at the 2011 Clinton Global Initiative.
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Pakistan Criminalizes Acid Throwing On Women (Graphic Content)
Pakistan has been scarred with innumerable cases of women being subjected to abuse. Many of these cases are reported, while many others go unreported. Acid burnings are amongst one of the most horrifying crimes against women in Pakistan. After a very long struggle for the right s of women, ‘Acid Burning’ has been officially criminalized in Pakistan in a landmark set of laws passed by the parliament. Pakistan is a nation of 175 million where most are poor, only half the adults can read and extremist ideologies foster. These laws stand to protect millions of women from common forms of abuse in a gender biased country like Pakistan.
