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United Nations prods saudis to give more rights to women.(SAUDI ARABIA)
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April 1, 2008
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- Seelhoff, Cheryl Lindsey
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GENEVA -- On Feb. 1, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women called on Saudi Arabia to immediately end its requirement that all women must have male guardians. Women still cannot travel, appear in court, marry or work without permission from a male guardian. If the woman has no husband or older male relative, her son can be her guardian!
Saudi Arabia signed the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women in 2000. International treaties take precedence over domestic laws, the committee said, urging the country to "enact a comprehensive gender equality law."
The knowledge that the U.N. committee was about to act ...
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