29 August 2013

Welcome to the 21st century: Saudi Arabia makes history with a law against abusing women

.... Reports like this – and there have been hundreds written about Saudi Arabia’s entrenched misogyny – have apparently stung the authorities into doing something about the problem, and today the Internet is buzzing with the news the Muslim kingdom’s cabinet has passed a law prohibiting domestic violence and other forms of abuse against women for the first time in its history.

The ban on physical or sexual violence is to apply both at home and within the workplace. [The Freethinker] Read more