{"id":294406,"date":"2021-06-14T16:24:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T19:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=294406"},"modified":"2021-06-17T08:39:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T11:39:00","slug":"saudi-women-allowed-to-live-alone-without-male-consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/saudi-women-allowed-to-live-alone-without-male-consent\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi women allowed to live alone without male consent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Saudi Arabia is to allow single, divorced or widowed women to live alone without permission from father or any other male guardian, or <em>wali<\/em> according to Islamic law. The guardians are usually close male relatives such as an uncle or a brother. The historic ruling gives Saudi women the freedom to live independently in a separate house without the consent of any man.<\/p>\n<p>Judicial authorities in the Arab country scrapped Paragraph B under article No. 169 of the \u201cLaw of Procedure before Sharia Courts,\u201d which stated that an adult single, divorced or widowed woman should be handed over to her male guardian. The amendment will enable single women to stay in their own separate accommodation, <a href=\"https:\/\/makkahnewspaper.com\/english\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Makkah Newspaper<\/em><\/a> and other local press outlets reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to lawyer Naif Al-Mansi, as quoted by a local newspaper, \u201cFamilies can no longer file lawsuits against their daughters who choose to live alone.\u201d He said courts will no longer accept such cases, which had been given a priority earlier. Courts have already been ruling in favor of women who for some reason filed lawsuits to have the right to live alone or who had been prosecuted by their relatives for it.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Saudi Arabia allowed women aged 18 years and over to\u00a0change their name on their ID card without their guardian\u2019s permission. The authorities also lifted <a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/saudi-women-start-traveling-without-permission-from-men\/\">travel restrictions on Saudi women<\/a> in 2019, whereby women over the age of 21 are allowed to apply for passports and travel freely. The year before, Saudi women were allowed to drive, ending a controversial decades-old ban.<\/p>\n<p>You may also enjoy reading: <a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/saudi-group-puts-out-fun-music-videos-about-new-laws\/\">Saudi group puts out fun music videos about new laws<\/a><\/p>\n<p>These legal developments are part of the country\u2019s so-called Vision 2030, an initiative by crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman aiming to diversify the economy and steer the kingdom towards a more \u201cmoderate form of Islam.\u201d The government has implemented the reforms gradually.<\/p>\n<p>*With information from newspaper Gulf News and Middle East Monitor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-294396\">Giuseppe Cacace\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia introduced a legal amendment allowing single, divorced or widowed women to live independently in a house without permission from father or any other male guardian, as it was the case until recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":294396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[21566,14234,21567,21568,21570,21569,21571,21572,21573,21565],"class_list":{"0":"post-294406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-islamic-law","9":"tag-saudi-women","10":"tag-sharia-law","11":"tag-single-woman","12":"tag-tutor-masculino-en","13":"tag-unmarried-woman","14":"tag-viuva-en","15":"tag-viver-sozinha-en","16":"tag-wali-en","17":"tag-widowed"},"wps_subtitle":"Saudi Arabia introduced a legal amendment allowing single, divorced or widowed women to live independently in a house without permission from father or any other male guardian, as it was the case until recently.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}