Saudi Arabia Implementing Women's Rights

Discussions on human rights are increasing dramatically around the world, and the United Nations plays an important role in this discussion. This organization is primarily responsible for instructing each country what they can and can not do in the field of human rights. Specifically, various international standards are adopted as to how each country deals with women. Saudi Arabia has long been seen as an example of a culture that does not meet these international human rights norms.

From the late 20th century to the beginning of the 21st century, the strict interpretation of Islamic Sharia in Saudi Arabia restricted the rights of women in Saudi Arabia compared to women's rights in neighboring countries. In the Global Economic Forum's 2016 Global Gender Gap Report, 141 out of 144 countries in Saudi Arabia are listed as gender equality and have declined from 134 countries out of 145 countries in 2015. The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) elected Saudi Arabia as the United Nations Women Council between 2018 and 2022. As of 2015, women in Saudi Arabia make up 13% of indigenous people in the country.

The legislative custody rights of Saudi Arabia shows that the relationship between men and women in Saudi Arabia society is a relationship between male domination and women's dependence. The United Nations report on the rights of women in Saudi Arabia is entitled "Children of Permanent Residents" (Human Rights Watch, 2008), claiming that the status of women in Saudi Arabia is close to the status of children. Because parents have the right to accept or refuse marriage proposals on behalf of the women under custody, some women in Saudi Arabia sued to file a lawsuit to demand that this right be withdrawn from parents There are people. According to the Ministry of Justice (2013), the number of lawsuits raised by a Saudi woman who refused marriage to guardians reached 304 cases in 2012, to 382 cases in 2013. There are a few but opposing people against the concept of custody of Saudi Arabia, but custody is still an important part of the courtship process.