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When Saudi Arabia agreed to let women drive, major car companies publicly hailed that development. It was a step towards equality for women in the Kingdom and created a lucrative new market for the industry. But since announcing it would lift the driving ban, the Saudi government has engaged in a large-scale crackdown on women's rights activists. At least thirteen women have since been imprisoned in Saudi Arabia because of their activism. And the same car companies that cheered the news last Spring are now silent in the face of these arrests. Help us call on these companies to stand for the women that fought for this change. Join our campaign and ask them to #StandwithSaudiFeminists.
About 1 million Turkic Muslims are being held in “political education camps” in China's Xinjiang province, according to reports. We spoke with researcher Maya Wang about what she learned speaking with former detainees and people whose relatives live in Xinjiang.
Despite South Carolina issuing an evacuation order for all coastal counties ahead of Hurricane Florence, the state corrections department said it would not transfer 934 prisoners and as many as 119 staff in one prison. Past history suggests this might prove disastrous.
The European Parliament this week voted to censure the Hungarian government for tearing down its democratic institutions in ways that put EU’s core values at risk.
India's Supreme Court recently decriminalized same-sex relations. Sri Lanka, where a near-identical criminal code leads to abuses against the LGBT community, should follow this landmark decision.
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