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'Saudi Women Revolution' Makes a Stand For Equal Rights
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As election centers across Saudi Arabia opened for voters to register for forthcoming municipal elections, groups of women turned up asking to take part. As expected, they were turned away -- women will not be able to stand or vote in September's municipal elections -- but just by showing up they had made their point. This was one of the first public acts of the newly-formed "Saudi Women Revolution," a movement set up to campaign for the end of Saudi Arabia's discriminatory laws. Their chief aim is ending male guardianship. The Saudi Women Revolution was started as a Facebook page and a discussion topic, or hash tag, on Twitter in February, by Nuha Al Sulaiman. Al Sulaiman, 28, said: "I started the Twitter hash tag to allow women to write whatever they are suffering from. The Facebook group now has more than 3,000 "likes" and a core of the women have met in person to discuss their campaign. (Source)
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