Saudi Women React After Learning They Will Be Allowed To Drive

2,216 views · Published 23 June 2018 · 1:29 · Indexed 20 October 2026

Channel: Global Citizen · 2018 · Nonprofits & Activism

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We talked to women in Saudi Arabia to learn how they felt the moment they heard that they would finally be allowed to drive in their country. 

Last September, King Salman issued a decree ordering an end to the kingdom's ban on women drivers, a conservative tradition seen by rights campaigners as an emblem of women's suppression.

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