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Will "No Women, No Play" Be Enough?
Bar Countries That Ban Women Athletes
NY Times: For Saudi Women, Biggest Challenge Is Getting to Play
By Ali AlAhmed
May 19, 2008
The procession of the Olympic torch drew protests from Paris to S...
NY Times: By KATHERINE ZOEPFPublished: November 17, 2010After the 18-year-old Saudi equestrian ...
No Women No Play
No Women No Play is an umbrella project of Hadi Al Mutif Program for Human Rights at the Institute for Gulf Affairs. The No Women No Play campaign has been created to allow women in Saudi Arabia to attain full political, social economic and legal rights.
“Women’s participation in sports is a reflection of the position of women in society in general. The entrance of women into these sporting spaces often coincides with women's entrance and active participation in civil society and politics.”
~ Nawal El Moutawakel - First African Muslim female Olympic champion
NY Times:For Saudi Women, Biggest Challenge Is Getting to Play
By KATHERINE ZOEPF
Published: November 17, 2010
After the 18-year-old Saudi equestrian Dalma Malhas won a bronze medal in show jumping at the first Youth Olympic Games in Singapore in August, she was singled out for praise by Jacques Rogge, chairman of the International Olympic Committee, in a news conference at the Games’ conclusion.
Bar Countries That Ban Women Athletes
Bar Countries That Ban Women Athletes
By ALI Al-AHMED
The procession of the Olympic torch drew protests from Paris to San Francisco over China's treatment of the Tibetan people, but no one has protested another tragedy that is afflicting millions of women in Saudi Arabia, Iran and other Muslim countries. Many Muslim women dare not even dream of the Olympics because their countries ban female sports altogether or severely restrict the athletic activities of the "weaker sex."
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Saudi Arabia: Let Women Vote, Run for Office
No Excuse for Exclusion From Upcoming Municipal Elections
March 31,2011
The government of Saudi Arabia cannot expect Saudi women to believe that a lack of preparation is behind the denial of their rights to political participation. This was a preposterous excuse in 2005, and even more so now. This crude sex discrimination is an insult to millions of Saudi women.
Nadya Khalife, Middle East women’s rights researcher
(Beirut) - The Saudi government's refusal to let women vote in municipal elections in September 2011 unlawfully deprives women of their rights to full and equal status under the law, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch called on the election committee to allow women to vote and to run for seats on the municipal councils.
On March 28, 2011, ‘Abd al-Rahman Dahmash, president of the general committee for the election of municipal council members, said, "We are not prepared for the participation of women in the municipal elections now." He promised that women will be allowed to participate in the future.
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