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Saudi Arabia is renowned for being the birthplace of Islam and is in effect, a rather religious kingdom. It also possesses a high HDI and is distinguished as a high-income economy. One’s impression of Saudi Arabia at what has just been inscribed is possibly that the country is propertied and would have decent Human Rights. Unfortunately, one would be mistaken should they think that as the legal system is plagued with inhumane irregularities and the employment of capital punishment over numerous offences. Nevertheless, my central focus today is to address the arrant state of women’s rights in Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia has a nominally Islamic population and observes an ascetic interpretation of Sharia (a moral code of a religion such as Islam) that has a fastidious set of precepts that the religious police severely impose.

Women in Saudi Arabia have merely a smattering of rights compared to their male counterparts and have surfeit of laws that seek to constrain them. Women are deferential to their man because of this. Whether or not a woman is querulous and incompetent or emphatic and independent, in Saudi Arabia they are identically condemned to servility (to men).

An extant Guardianship system obviates women in Saudi Arabia from carrying out various tasks. The ignoble guardianship system proscribes women from receiving specific medical procedures, traveling, matriculating in higher education and conducting official business without sanction of their male guardian and permission to marry. This inchoate guardianship system engenders numerous complications.

In one anecdote, a woman who was involved in a car incident and was incumbent on a hand amputation had her operation postponed on the burden of an absent male guardian to assen...

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...ction in 2015, which is major step in advancing women’s rights in the conservative kingdom. However, whether Saudi Arabia will modernize their Dogma and thus the way they treat women clearly the matter at hand.

It is obvious that Saudi Arabia has ensconced itself as a symbol of inveterate traditions and women’s rights are only part of the issue. Capital punishment, torture, religious persecution, persecution of apostates and various other issues are in no way ancillary to women’s rights and are yet other offences to the United Declaration of Human Rights. Nevertheless, I feared that speaking of such topics would be tangential to the main topic (women’s rights). To boot, I hope that it holds prescient to say that Saudi Arabia is upon a path towards absolving women, but it is evidently a path bereft of shortcuts and unfortunately not the only enigma in the pipeline.