Saudi Arabia Lifts Travel Restrictions on Women

Saudi Arabia has allowed adult women to travel without permission and granted them more control over family matters, Golf News reports.

The decisions issued in a series of cabinet decrees published by the official gazette on Friday stipulate that a Saudi passport should be issued to any citizen that applies for it and that any person above the age of 21 does not need permission to travel.

The amendments to regulations also grant women for the first time the right to register child birth, marriage or divorce and to be issued official family documents and be eligible as a guardian to children who are minors.