After much arm twisting from the International Olympic Committee, Saudi Arabia has said "uncle" and given up making excuses for why it's one of three countries that has never sent a woman to compete in the Olympic Games. But although the presence of a Saudi female athlete in London may appear encouraging to outsiders,…

Today Saudi Arabia announced that in its next election women will be allowed to run of office and vote without the approval of a male guardian. It's really quite generous, though for some reason, women aren't partying in the streets. Probably because they still need a man's permission to drive, travel, work, study…

A Saudi Arabian cleric has warned his fellow countrymen against lifting the country's ban on allowing women to drive, asserting that letting ladies take the wheel will lead to a complete extinction of virgins within 10 years. Because everyone knows that ladies will only use their newfound freedom to cars to drive…

Women in Saudi Arabia are required by law to cover their hair and wear long, loose black dresses in public. Some areas of the country require women to cover their faces as well. Now, per a recommendation by the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (CPVPV), women who are determined to have…

Many Saudi women are unimpressed with their new voting rights, and say they really need the right to drive. One tells NBC,

Women may have the right to vote and run in Saudi Arabia's municipal elections in 2015 — however, female candidates won't be allowed to have their pictures on campaign posters.

Women in Saudi Arabia got the right to vote in municipal elections this week. But is this seemingly progressive decision just a way of drawing attention away from rights Saudi women still don't have, like driving?

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has granted women the right to vote in the kingdom. But in a nation where elected officials carry little power, does it even matter?

Hooray for women! Saudi Arabian King Abdullah has granted women in his country the right to vote and run for public office.

Censorship is prevalent in Saudi Arabia, and someone has collected photos illustrating all the ways Mariah Carey has been covered up.

As part of the campaign to lift the ban on women selling lingerie in Saudi Arabia, 26 mostly-Saudi women recently completed a 40-hour training course to learn how to fit and sell underwear to other women.

A Saudi judge has, for a second time, refused to annul a marriage between an eight-year-old girl and a 47-year-old man.

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Human Rights Watch has declared Saudi Arabia's treatment of women to be a "denial of fundamental rights." Saudi women (in case you haven't heard) are legally obligated to have a male guardian to make decisions for them, travel with them, and are banned from driving, giving them about as much personal freedom as a…

Can you imagine living in a country where your Craft-inspired Wiccan dabbling could get you killed? For Saudi women, it's a reality: Fawza Falih has been sentenced to execution based on witnesses' testimony that she "bewitched" them, says CBS News. Falih was also convicted based on her own confession, but that…