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Map of the certain freedoms women have in other countries.

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Map of the certain freedoms women have in other countries.

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Graph of the problems with Women's Rights in other countries.

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Graph of the problems with Women's Rights in other countries.

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I was born and raised in Saudi Arabia. As a girl, I wasn’t treated with much respect. I remember my parents being ashamed when they found out I was a girl. As I grew up, my mother didn’t allow me to go outside without my brothers or father. I couldn’t go to school either. I always envied my brother’s with their friends and school books, while I was stuck inside cleaning. I never really had a choice in what I do. I always had to obey the men in my life, never have I gotten the choice to say no. They never listened to me. Now, it’s time for me to find a suitable husband to take my hand in marriage. To bear their children, and clean their house. I guess that’s all I can do in life. I’ve seen stories of many foreign women studying to be models and doctors, and I want to be like them. I can’t. I don’t have freedom, I don’t have a voice. I’m nothing. I have no choice but to marry my cousin, father said so. I don’t want this, but they will never listen. Later in life, I will have children and they expect me to do my job properly. When will this all end? When will the bruises and scars in my head heal? When will I ever find who I am, as a person not an object.

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D. What is currently being done to address this problem?

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D. What is currently being done to address this problem?

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Currently, people from around the world have gathered on social media to fight against the unfair laws in Saudi Arabia. It ranges from celebrities to the world leaders who are against their laws. Without their help Saudi Arabian women wouldn’t have as much freedom as they have today. Brave women in Saudi Arabia are sharing their stories even with the risk of being arrested. The people who read this stories know that’s wrong, so they write articles about the stories. Soon enough, everyone knows and everyone is fighting for them. For example, WWE wrestlers are refusing to work the Crown Jewel event in Saudi Arabia because they know what’s going on there. Saudi Arabia realized what was going around them, so they slowly added more laws to give women more rights and freedom.

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B. How has the problem affected the community directly?

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B. How has the problem affected the community directly?

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This problem affected the community because soon women were second-class citizens and disrespected constantly. Men in Saudi Arabia think that they are superior over their female mates, they are wrong. Soon women feared giving birth to girl’s. If a woman gave birth to a female baby, the father and mother are shamed. They always lived a life of fear, not being able to escape from the dreadful feeling. They constantly had to cover up their faces, hiding their beauty from the rest of the world. They had to be wary with the people around them, they didn’t trust many. They want to breathe, but they are only suffocating. It’s affecting the community because women are seen as second-class citizens.

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Teenage girls holding up signs, fighting for equality.

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Teenage girls holding up signs, fighting for equality.

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Women protesting for women to drive in Saudi Arabia.

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Women protesting for women to drive in Saudi Arabia.

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C. Why should the rest of the world be concerned about this issue?

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C. Why should the rest of the world be concerned about this issue?

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The world should be concerned about the issue because the ones who want to make a change are being detained and tortured for no logical reason. No one should every experience treatment that makes them look like less then trash. In Saudi Arabia, they make physical, and sexual assault look like nothing. Being abused, tortured, and controlled was normal. In 2019, Saudi Arabia passed a law where husbands had to either text or verbally tell their wife that they were going to divorce them. Women weren’t told if their husband divorced them until 2019! Since they didn’t know they couldn’t go anywhere, nor look for another husband. It took them decades to finally agree to build a school for girl’s in 1955. That was only 64 years ago! Saudi Arabia imprisons Women’s Rights leaders and torture them so badly that they were dozens of suicide attempts in prison. This is why the rest of the world should be concerned.

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The problem is that women in Saudi Arabia are seen as “objects” mere toys that are birthing machines for men’s children. They have no say in what they do and are criticized by people when they try to break free. They are also not allowed to get an education, being frowned upon when they do. Women are not permitted to do anything without a male relative’s permission. They can’t get jobs, only 15% of the Saudi Arabian workforce are women. Disgusting. The reason for all of this is simple, religion. Saudi Arabia practices the Islam religion which believes in one god. Believing in the god, women were soon seen as secondary-class citizens. Women constantly lived a life of fear, they have no voice. This is a problem because women aren't actually seen as human beings.