only country in the world in which women were forbidden from driving motor vehicles. The Women to Drive Movement (Arabic: قيادة المرأة في السعودية qiyādat...
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streets," a reference to the Women2Drive movement, a campaign for Saudi women's right to drive that called for Saudi women to start driving starting...
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Feminism in Saudi Arabia (category Women in Saudi Arabia)
include the women to drive movement and the anti male-guardianship campaign. Madawi al-Rasheed argued in 2019 that the Saudi feminist movement was "the most...
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to target and repress women's rights activists and movements. Prominent feminist campaigns include the Women to Drive Movement and the anti male-guardianship...
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the song was shot in Ouarzazate, Morocco in solidarity with the women to drive movement, premiering on 3 February 2012. Directed by Romain Gavras, the...
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2018–2019 Saudi crackdown on feminists (category Women's rights in Saudi Arabia)
feminists consisted of waves of arrests of women's rights activists in Saudi Arabia involved in the women to drive movement and the Saudi anti male-guardianship...
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Arabia, to be carried out by beheading and crucifixion (in that order). Manal al-Sharif and Samar Badawi, active in the women to drive movement, announced...
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Saudi anti male-guardianship campaign (category Women's rights in Saudi Arabia)
campaigners wouldn't be "able to celebrate" the new announcement, due to imprisonment, travel bans or exile. Women to drive movement in Saudi Arabia Chaperone...
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shootings as responses to unidentified gunmen who had shot first. Manal al-Sharif and Samar Badawi, active in the women to drive movement, announced that they...
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Loujain al-Hathloul (category 20th-century Saudi Arabian women)
British Columbia. Al-Hathloul is known both for her role in the women to drive movement and in opposing the Saudi male guardianship system. On 1 December...
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Social media's role in the Arab Spring (section Origins of the social media movement in Arab nations)
spread the call to protest online with the help of a Facebook campaign, "We Are All Khaled Said", organized by the April 6 Youth Movement, Egypt's "largest...
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The Chipko movement (Hindi: चिपको आन्दोलन, lit. 'hugging movement') is a forest conservation movement in India. Opposed to commercial logging and the...
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romanized: at-Tajammu’u al-Yamanī lil-Iṣlāḥ), is a Yemeni Sunni Islamist movement established in 1990 by Abdullah ibn Husayn al-Ahmar, Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar...
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and several other women's rights advocates involved in the women to drive movement and the anti male-guardianship campaign. Speaking to the BBC's Newshour...
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The women's liberation movement (WLM) was a political alignment of women and feminist intellectualism. It emerged in the late 1960s and continued into...
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anti-corruption movement, popularly known as Anna Andolan, was a series of demonstrations and protests across India that began in 2011 and was intended to establish...
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Arab Spring, Manal al-Sharif and other women organised a women's right-to-drive campaign, with the main action to take place on 17 June. Al-Sharif drove...
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crackdown on women involved in the women to drive movement and the anti male-guardianship campaign and their male supporters. The women were detained...
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The April 6 Youth Movement (Arabic: حركة شباب 6 أبريل) is an Egyptian activist group established in Spring 2008 to support the workers in El-Mahalla El-Kubra...
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weeks, with attempts by police to quiet the unrest serving only to fuel what was quickly becoming a violent and deadly movement. After Bouazizi's death, the...
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The Occupy movement was an international populist socio-political movement that expressed opposition to social and economic inequality and to the perceived...
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May and June, Manal al-Sharif and other women organised a women's right-to-drive campaign, with the main action to take place on 17 June. Al-Sharif drove...
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National Liberation Army (Libya) (redirect from 17 February movement)
civilian volunteers, in order to engage in battle against both remaining members of the Libyan Armed Forces and paramilitia loyal to the rule of Muammar Gaddafi...
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Ali Abdullah Saleh (section Rise to the presidency)
a protest movement and subsequent insurgency succeeded in capturing Yemen's capital, Sanaa, causing President Abdrabbuh Mansur al-Hadi to resign and...
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Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (category Ambassadors of Tunisia to Poland)
the disabled. She was also the president of the Arab Women Organization, which works to empower women in Arab states. She has three children: Nesrine, Halima...
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Upon ascending to the throne, Mohammed initially introduced a number of reforms and changed the family code, Mudawana, granting women more power. Leaked...
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traveled to the United States in late 2013 to continue his academic studies. He first became politically active in 2005, joining the protest movement Kefaya...
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for future testimonials about a strengthening borderless digital movement that is set to continually disrupt powerful institutions, be they corporate enterprises...
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opposition from Hizb ut-Tahrir, the Islamic Tendency Movement, the Tunisian Communist Party, the Movement for Popular Unity and student groups. Although its...
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