Women in Saudi Arabia will soon be able to travel abroad without being accompanied by a male guardian.

Government officials in the kingdom, which adheres to a strict interpretation of fundamentalist Islam, announced recently that women over the age of 21 will be permitted to leave the country without a male guardian. Previously, Saudi women could not travel unless accompanied by a man, usually a close male relative, such as a father or brother.

NPR reported that the country has gradually been granting women more rights. Last year, women were given the right to drive.

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Americans United & the National Women’s Law Center file suit to challenge Missouri’s abortion bans.

Abortion bans violate the separation of church and state. Americans United and the National Women’s Law Center—the leading experts in religious freedom and gender justice—have joined forces with thirteen clergy from six faith traditions to challenge Missouri’s abortion bans as unconstitutionally imposing one narrow religious doctrine on everyone.


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