Saudi women can now travel without consent – but this progress is fragile

Women can be granted passports and travel abroad without the consent of their male guardians. They can also register a birth, marriage or divorce. But they still cannot marry, or leave prison or a domestic violence shelter without the consent of their male guardians.

[Saudi Arabia’s “guardianship” system] stipulates that women are not legal persons, and consequently, they have to be represented by male relatives to work, marry, study, travel, and seek medical care.

Saudi women can now travel without consent – but this progress is fragile | Madawi al-Rasheed | Opinion | The Guardian

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