Saudi Arabian Woman Cabinet Minister Must Have Permission to Appear on Television


	Saudi Arabian Woman Cabinet Minister Must Have Permission to Appear on Television

Deepti

6-13-2009 1:38 AM

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human rights, minister, saudi arabia, television, women

Deepti says:

how surprising!

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King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia named al-Faiz to be the new Deputy Minister for Women's Education in <A target="_blank" href="http://feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=11530" linkindex="28">February</A>. Advocate Wajeha al-Huwaider told <A target="_blank" href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/02/15/saudi.female.minister/" linkindex="29"><I>CNN</I></A> at the time of al-Faiz's appointment that she thought the appointment would be "the first step toward the reform that [King Abdullah] promised," but that she was skeptical that al-Faiz would have real power, in part because the country's guardianship system continues to paralyze women.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6A094440-0DA8-454C-B984-90B8077F4194/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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