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Saudi women sit behind the wheel in protest authorities’ refusal to grant them a driver’s license. So they challenged not only long-standing limitations, but the entire system laws based on gender. Saudi Arabia considered the toughest country in this sense.
However, according to one study, there are several countries where women’s rights are infringed on almost more than in Saudi Arabia.
World Economic Forum, annually publishes a rating of countries by gender inequality. In 2013, Saudi Arabia turned out to be tenth from the end, followed by Mali, Morocco, Iran, Cote d’Ivoire, Mauritania, Syria, Chad, Pakistan and Yemen. Violation of women’s rights does not limited to North and West Africa or the Middle East, although it is from there that we hear such stories most often.
“A large number of very serious problems in this area come from long-standing legal systems, “says Rotna Begum, Middle Eastern and North African Women’s Rights Researcher from Human Rights Watch, an independent organization.
However, she also believes that some “modernization” is still happening, especially for Saudi Arabia.
Below you will find nine of the strangest female restrictions, current rights in different parts of the world, from Asia to Latin America.
1. India: Road safety rules do not apply women
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In some areas of India, road safety rules are not apply to women. For example, women are not required to wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle, this assumption is worth a thousand lives every year. Women’s rights advocates claim this is due to the depreciation of female life. Advocates of the law They stress that they just care about hairstyle and makeup.
2. Yemen: A woman is not considered a full witness
According to the report of the human rights organization Freedom House, according to Yemen’s legal witness policy, a woman cannot be considered a full witness in court. By testimony women do not take seriously at all if they are not confirmed the testimony of a man or does not relate to a place or situation where men it can not be. Also, a woman has no right at all testify in cases of adultery, libel, theft or homosexuality.
3. Saudi Arabia and the Vatican: Women still can’t vote
Surprisingly, this is true, although the royal a 2011 decree still allows women to vote in upcoming elections in 2015 in saudi arabia. Vatican the only country where only people can vote men.
4. Ecuador: Abortion is prohibited to all but “idiots”
Ecuador is a country where abortion has long been illegal for all but “idiots” and “crazy.” Today, politicians have replaced these terms are more correct – “mentally unhealthy”, but it will not change the illegal status of abortion and the fact that the law often used to criminalize such an operation.
5. Saudi Arabia and Morocco: Victims of violence themselves can be charged with crimes
So many countries do not protect victims of violence, but some go even further – women are punished for leaving home without male escort, for being alone with a man, not a relative, or for a subsequent pregnancy. Most notorious case – the case of the “girl from El Katif” in Saudi Arabia but also recent suicide in Morocco too made a noise – 16-year-old Amina Filali laid hands on herself after after the court ordered her to marry her rapist, as the legislation of this country removes all charges of rape if the parties get married.
6. Yemen: A woman cannot leave home without permission husband
However, in Yemen, where this law is still in force, there is some exceptions. For example, if a woman has to leave to take care of their sick parents.
7. Saudi Arabia: Women cannot drive
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However, there is good news. The World Report Economic Forum states that the Middle East still there is progress on women’s rights and there are prospects for further changes.
Saudi women are highly educated and competent, they don’t want to stay in the shade.
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