Saturday, 16 July 2011
More than 600 human rights and legal activists have joined a campaign launched by Saudi women on Facebook demanding full rights for their children. These Saudi women are married to foreigners.
The children of Saudi women married to foreigners are not automatically entitled to Saudi citizenship. The women are demanding that their sons and daughters be nationalized and treated as full-fledged citizens. The Internet campaign poses some serious questions. Why this disparity? Why is a Saudi woman punished for marrying a foreigner? Why do the children have to pay the price?
(For more on this, please see: http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article472563.ece)
The children of Saudi women married to foreigners are not automatically entitled to Saudi citizenship. The women are demanding that their sons and daughters be nationalized and treated as full-fledged citizens. The Internet campaign poses some serious questions. Why this disparity? Why is a Saudi woman punished for marrying a foreigner? Why do the children have to pay the price?
(For more on this, please see: http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article472563.ece)
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