#driving ban

[makerswomen]

Women are taking to the streets in Saudi Arabia…. but this time, it’s in cars. 🚗🔥 For the first time ever, Saudi Arabian women have been granted the legal right to drive. Since the one-of-a-kind ban on female drivers was lifted, more than 120,000 Saudi Arabian women have applied for their drivers licenses. 💪

[humanrightsupdates]

Car Makers Should Stand With Saudi Activists (Human Rights Watch)

When the Saudi government agreed to let women drive, major car companies publicly and rightly hailed that development. It was a step towards equality for women in the Kingdom and created a lucrative new market for the industry. Now, the courageous women that fought for their right to drive are being arrested, jailed, and harassed. It is a cruel irony that the women who fought for equality are in jail while the companies stand to make millions from the market those women have helped create. They should tell the government to stop going after these activists.

On May 15, just weeks before they lifted the decades-long driving ban on June 24, Saudi authorities launched a large scale coordinated crackdown against the women’s rights movement. They have since arrested at least 13 prominent women’s rights activists and accused several of them of grave crimes which appear to be directly related to their activism. At least nine women continue to be detained without charge, some of whom are awaiting a trial that could have them facing up to 20 years in prison. This is the most serious attack on women’s rights activism.

While Saudi Arabian authorities think they can get away with detaining women’s rights defenders while touting a new era of reform for women, they do care about what businesses and foreign investors think of them including car companies seeking to benefit from the new market. The car companies have so far stayed silent about the arrests of activists, whose years of campaigning they are now benefitting from.

Help free the real champions behind the lifting of the driving ban. Call on car companies to support the release of the detained Saudi women activists. By taking action you will be sending an email to the following car companies: Volkswagen, Ford, Hyundai, Audi, Jaguar Land Rover, Renault, Nissan & General Motors.

ACT NOW

[zunairahstudies]

Arabic Vocab - Driving

The ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia will be lifted in less than 24 hours, so here’s some vocab that you probably don’t care about :D 

Despite this post being about Saudi Arabia the words in this list are in Egyptian Arabic 

And here’s a link to sign a petition to free the Saudi Activists who not only campaigned for the driving ban to be lifted but also for women’s rights in general x 

activist - ناشِط

to celebrate - إحتـَفـَل بـِ - ihtafal bi 

equality - مـُسا َوا َة - musawaet

government - مـُد ِر ِييـَة - mudiriyya

drive - سا َيـِق - saeyi’

driver - سـَوّا َق - sawwae’ 

drivers - سـَوّا َقين - sawwa’een

driver’s license - ر ُخصـِة سـِوا َقـَة - ruchsit siwae’a 

protest - إحتـَجّ - ‘ihtagg 

permit - أبا َح - ‘abaeh

permission - إبا َحـَة - ‘ibaeha

rights - حـُقوق - hu’oo’

strength - قـُوّ َة - quwwa

traffic light - إشا َر َة ز َحمـَة - ‘ishaara

speed -  سـَرّ َع - sarraA

car - عـَر َبـِيـَة - Aarabiya 

cars - عـَر َبـِيا َت - Arabiyaat 

taxi - تا َكسي - taksi

[thefempress]

Saudi Arabia’s Driving Ban On Women To Be Lifted

King Salman of Saudi Arabia has issued a decree allowing women to drive for the first time, and the world is celebrating. 

Saudi is the only country in the world that bans women from driving. Until now, only men were allowed licenses and women who drove in public could be arrested and fined. 

Following King Salman’s decrees, women will no longer need permission from a legal guardian to get a license and will not need a guardian in the car when they drive. 

The Saudi Foreign ministry announced Tuesday that a royal decrees has been issued that will allow women to drive by next June. 

“This is a historic big day in our kingdom,” Prince Khaled bin Salman, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the US, said Tuesday in a briefing with reporters. 

[qupritsuvwix]

Drunk driver that killed West Flemish family’s previous driving ban never enforced

Drunk driver that killed West Flemish family’s previous driving ban never enforced

[qupritsuvwix]

Military police enforce driving ban in snow-stricken Buffalo

In Buffalo, the dead were found in cars, homes and snowbanks. Some died while shoveling snow, others when emergency crews could not respond

[mechcrunch]

New - EU Commission remains at limits

New – EU Commission remains at limits

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All just rumors: Contrary to other allegations, the EU Commission definitely does not intend to increase the nitrogen oxide limit values ​​in Germany. Allegedly, 50 micrograms per cubic meter of air should be allowed on an annual average instead of the EU-wide binding 40 micrograms.

Completely wrong, so the Bresseler Brokraten: "It is not gererttelt." How the limit is achieved,…

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