'Let Saudi women drive'

US: Fourteen US female senators have written a letter to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, calling on him to lift the country's ban on women drivers.

In the letter, senators from both Democrat and Republican parties have urged the Saudi king to meet his country's commitments to the United Nations Human Rights Council and the Arab Charter on Human Rights, and let women drive, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.

"The prohibition on women driving motor vehicles, even in cases of emergency, makes it impossible for citizens to exercise a basic human right," wrote Senator Barbara Boxer of California, a Democrat member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, together with other lawmakers from both political parties. The senators said the annulment of the ban would be a crucial step towards improving of women's rights in Saudi Arabia.

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