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Saudi women in Saudi Arabia: living in a lie

Wednesday, 11 October 2017 10:50 AM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 11 October 2017 10:52 AM ]

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Today almost everyone heard of Saudi Arabia is aware that Saudi women are barred from driving a car. But the dire situation of human rights particularly women’s right inside the Saudi kingdom is much worse yet unreported.

Anti-women attitudes inside Saudi Arabia is not restricted to ordinary citizens only. Hundreds of thousands of low-skilled female workers from Pakistan, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Kenya migrate voluntarily to Saudi Arabia; some fall into conditions of involuntary servitude, suffering from physical and sexual abuse, non-payment or delayed payment of wages, the withholding of travel documents, restrictions on their freedom of movement and non-consensual contract alterations.

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