Beyond legal reform: Advancing women’s healthcare autonomy in Saudi Arabia through institutional accountability

Executive summary Over the past decades, Saudi Arabia has undertaken significant reforms to expand women’s participation in public life under Vision 2030. Legal changes have reduced formal restrictions on guardianship and affirmed women’s independent access to healthcare services. Female labor force participation has increased substantially, and women now constitute a growing proportion of the healthcare[…]

UN Special Procedures Publishes Allegation Letter on Saudi Guardianship Laws

On 22 February 2019, the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the right to education, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, and the Chair Rapporteur of the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in[…]

Event Summary: “Women’s Rights in Saudi Arabia”

On 25 June 2015, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD), Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights (ESOHR) co-sponsored an event entitled “Women’s Rights in Saudi Arabia,” at the 29th session of the UN Human Rights Council. Dr.[…]