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It's a video which lasts 40 seconds. It illustrates women who beg her son to grant her permission to travel. In Saudi Arabia, women are subject to an oppressive male guardianship system and the woman must have the permission of her guardianship to travel! Does it make sense to require women to obtain permission from a mal guardianship so she can travel? This video comes to make advocacy and fight men's guardianship on women.

This document represents a Teses and Dissertations on Application of Shari’ah and International Human Rights Law in Saudi Arabia. The dissertation provides an analytical and comparative study of the application of Islamic law (Shari’ah) and international human rights law in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It provides an analysis of the sources of Islamic law as well as the sources of international law to set the background for analysis and defines the nature of both laws. It also tackles the subject of the domestic application of international human treaties in Saudi Arabia. In addition, it examines some reservations Saudi Arabia has entered to some of the international human rights treaties it has ratified, specifically the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). The dissertation discusses some rights of women before Saudi courts in family matters, an issue which has been criticised by some international human rights treaties, and examines to what extent the country has managed to tackle the issue of domestic violence, particularly violence against women. It provides an overview of the major causes of domestic violence against women in Saudi Arabia, presents some cases of domestic violence before Saudi courts and sheds some II light on the measures taken by the Saudi government to combat domestic violence against women. It also tackles this issue both in the international and domestic legal frameworks, clearly stating the Islamic standpoint on the issue, namely that Islamic law, and Saudi Arabia for that matter, whose laws are essentially derived from the two main sources of Shari’ah. It also discusses the common forms of violence against women in Saudi Arabia and suggests a number of recommendations towards more effective protection of women against violence in the country. The dissertation concludes by presenting a number of obstacles in the way of executing judicial decisions in the Kingdom as well as the obstacles which negatively affect the performance of the new code of law practice. It also presents some recommendations concerning personal status law obstacles and hindrances to progress and attempts to answer the research questions it has posed.

It's a video that lasts 40 seconds. It illustrates the increased risk of spousal violence. In Saudi Arabia, women are subject to an oppressive male guardianship system. This video comes as part of advocacy to fight men's guardianship over women.

This document presents the concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the third periodic report of Bahrain. The Committee welcomes the report in which its previous recommendations had been taken into account. It expresses its appreciation to the State party for its written replies to the list of issues and questions raised by the pre-sessional working group. It welcomes the oral presentation of the delegation and the further clarifications provided in response to the questions posed by the Committee during the dialogue.

This document presents the concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the fifth periodic report of United Arab Emirates. The Committee expresses its appreciation for the initial report of the State party, although it does not fully comply with the Committee’s guidelines for the preparation of initial reports, lacks references to the Committee’s general recommendations, as well as some statistical data, and was overdue. The Committee also welcomes the State party’s written replies to the list of issues and questions raised by its pre-session working group and the oral presentation and responses to the questions posed by the Committee, which together provided further insights into the situation of women in the State party and the implementation of the rights contained in the Convention