JAKARTA, INDONESIA (BNO NEWS) — Saudi Arabia pledged to release more than 300 Indonesians jailed in the country for various offenses after an Indonesian minister visited the Arab state to seek clemency for 23 Indonesians on death row, the Jakarta Globe reported. “The Saudi government will release 316 Indonesians who are serving time in prison,” [...]

In the wake of a huge increase in the cost of recruitment, authorities have instructed local recruitment firms to stop hiring domestic staff from Indonesia. The move follows a request by local recruitment firms to the authorities after reaching a deadlock in wage negotiations with Indonesian recruiters that send workers, Al-Riyadh newspaper reported on Saturday. [...]

Saudi newspapers ran front page pictures on Friday of King Abdullah and Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz in a crowd of women with their faces bared, adding fuel to the growing fight over mixing in the kingdom. The undated photograph showed the kingdom’s two most powerful men together with more than three dozen smiling [...]

The case of the girl, who married last year, has prompted the state-run Human Rights Commission to call for a legal minimum age in the kingdom. The girl, now 12, has been fighting her case in the town of Buraidah, near the capital Riyadh. She was married to her father’s elderly cousin last year, with [...]

American students  startup an online campaign supporting a Saudi student assaulted by her husband. She was severely beaten after refusing to give birth in Saudi Arabia, instead she wanted to give birth in America. In the city of Corvallis (central-western state of Oregon) 2008, woke up on the scene of  ”M.B.” covered with blood. According to [...]

Dr. “Samia bint Mohammed Abdurahman Alamoudi” the first Saudi female doctor holds a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, Faculty of Medicine at King Abdulaziz University, where she was among the first batch of Saudi women doctors who graduated from the university, and then went to work for Kmaidp in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology [...]

(AFP) Two years after Wajiha Al-Huwaidar defied a Saudi ban on women driving by posting a video on the Internet showing her cruising in a remote area, she still dreams of getting behind the wheel like her other Gulf sisters. Huwaidar’s brazen act on International Women’s Day 2008 was a symbolic gesture in the ultra-conservative [...]

DUBAI – More than three in five Saudis support a minimum age for marriage for women, according to a survey that comes as nuptials between barely teen girls and men old enough to be their great grandfathers have caught the world’s attention. But 28 percent of 887 respondents in the survey by pollster YouGovSiraj said [...]

Domestic violence occurs when a family member, partner or ex-partner attempts to physically or psychologically dominate another. It occurs in homes more than we would like to know, and more often to helpless children. In response to the increasing domestic violence against vulnerable groups of women, children and the elderly, it was necessary  Saudi leadership [...]