Saudi women are divided about whether the country's rulers should ease restrictive gender policies, but as Eman Al Nafjan writes in Foreign Policy, there are "hundreds, if not thousands, of Saudi women who are fighting for their rights," whether it be the freedom to become a lawyer, manage a business, or move about without a guardian's permission. For her persistent outspokenness in the face of repression, FP named Nafjan, a Riyadh-based postgraduate student who writes the influential Saudiwoman's Weblog, to its 2011 list of Global Thinkers. But she's not the only woman making waves in Saudi. Here are ten other trailblazing women making their mark in the Kingdom right now.
Above, women walk in a Riyadh City mall a day after Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah granted women the right to vote and to run in municipal elections in September 2011.
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COUNTCHOCULA1011
9:04 PM ET
December 14, 2011
How much longer are we gonna throw a celebration....
....every time some woman does something worthy of being noticed? This is really getting ridiculous to be honest. It seems like every day there's some headline "woman swims 100 miles!" "first female olympic hoola hooper!"
It just seems a like condescending every time we act like it's some huge miracle that a woman managed to do something.
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8:27 PM ET
December 26, 2011
The junta got the money to
The junta got the money to build this Brand New City , from the sales of VAST Off-shore natural gas reserves found along Western and Southern Coasts of Burma. The 30 year reserves of Natural Gas are sold cheap to China and Thailand , while the whole of Burmese population having to endure decades of constant shortage of electricity and fuel shortage mkv converterMKV ConverterYouTube Converter for MacYouTube To MP4 ConverterPdf Converter for MacPDF Editor for MacPDF Editor for MacPdf Converter for Mac
even to cook their daily meals . Also, millions of Acres of Teak forests in Kachin, Shan , Kayin and Mon States had also diminished due to rampant deforestation by the regime & its cronies as China would buy anything from Burma including "Living Trees and Human Beings".. This is how the junta can afford to build a Brand New City carved out of the jungle.