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Largest Spanish Newspaper Elpais Features the Gulf Institute
July 11th, 2008 - Spain’s most widely circulated newspaper, El País (The Country), gave full page coverage yesterday to the issue of sexual discrimination in the International Olympic Games, which the Institute for Gulf Affairs had…
Gulf Institute Kicks off (No Women. No Play.) Campaign in Washington DC Saturday
Contact Anum Khan (202-466-9500)
No Women. No Play.: A Women's Rights Campaign to Allow Saudi Women to participate in the 2012 Olympic Games
Email: nowomennoplay@gulfinstitute.org
http://twitter.com/NOWOMENNOPLAY
Location: DuPont…
Ailene Voisin: IOC cowers as some nations continue to ban women
The scene initially was niggling, troubling, then so much worse than that. Frankly, it was outrageous, with minimal cover provided by the flags and the uniforms and the procession of beaming, glistening faces. All those nations. All…
Escaping Saudi Arabia’s gilded cage
The Guardian
By Ali AlAhmed
The life of a princess in the House of Saud comes with an unlimited bank account – and no basic freedoms The British court was right when it granted asylum to a female member of the Al Saud ruling family and…
Will “No Women, No Play” Be Enough?
One day we were average college students working towards our education and the next day we were young professionals working in the midst of a turning point in history. We were ecstatic when we learned we would be working for the…
USCIRF CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF HADI AL-MUTIF
Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has issued a statement today requesting the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to release Hadi Saeed Al-Mutif, a Saudi religious prisoner who was arrested at age…
Petition to Release Hadi al-Mutif from Prison
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - January 19th marked another year for the longest religious imprisonment of a man in Saudi Arabia: one of the world's most religiously extreme countries, where the international and local media took stance on this…
Gulf Institute Kicks off (No Women. No Play.) Campaign in Washington DC Saturday
Contact Anum Khan 202-466-9500
No Women. No Play.: A Women's Rights Campaign to Allow Saudi Women to participate in the 2012 Olympic Games
Email: nowomennoplay@gulfinstitute.org
http://twitter.com/NOWOMENNOPLAY
Location: DuPont…
The Guardian: Saudi solidarity and the ‘Ground Zero mosque’
At a recent Iftar dinner in the White House, President Obama reaffirmed America's commitment to religious freedom and protection for all citizens, regardless of their faith, when he defended the right of American Muslims to build a…
The Guardian: Justice, even for princes
The prince is guilty of murder. That was the verdict rendered against the Saudi prince, Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser Al Saud, regarding the death of his servant, Bandar Abdulaziz. It is a victory for the people of Saudi Arabia who, for…