Women in Saudi Arabia are to be allowed to drive – ending a law which made the Gulf nation the only country in the world to forbid female drivers, according to the following report by telegraph.co.uk:
On Twitter, the news was being celebrated widely while the change, which will not happen immediately, was announced on state television and in a simultaneous media event in Washington.
It underlines the damage that the policy has done to the kingdom’s international reputation and its hopes for a public relations benefit from the reform.
Campaigners have for many years argued that women should be allowed to drive, noting that it makes virtual prisoners out of women who do not have a male family member or chauffeur to drive them around
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