| rdfs:comment | - Saudi Arabia's treatment of women ,Non-Muslims, and others can be seen as apartheid, analogous to South Africa's treatment of non-whites during South Africa's apartheid era. Those who use this analogy argue that Saudi Arabia has a system of control including separate schools, inequities in legal rights, unequal access to property and jobs, and restrictions on freedom of movement imposed only on Women and Non-Muslims. Human Rights Watch (HRW) states that the government misrepresents practice regarding women's rights. A July 2009 report states:
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| abstract | - Saudi Arabia's treatment of women ,Non-Muslims, and others can be seen as apartheid, analogous to South Africa's treatment of non-whites during South Africa's apartheid era. Those who use this analogy argue that Saudi Arabia has a system of control including separate schools, inequities in legal rights, unequal access to property and jobs, and restrictions on freedom of movement imposed only on Women and Non-Muslims. Human Rights Watch (HRW) states that the government misrepresents practice regarding women's rights. A July 2009 report states: Saudi officials continue to require women to obtain permission from male guardians to conduct their most basic affairs, like traveling or receiving medical care, despite government assertions that no such requirements exist....The government made its assertions most recently in June 2009, to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva....Saudi doctors have confirmed that Health Ministry regulations still require a woman to obtain permission from her male guardian to undergo elective surgery. In late June, Saudi border guards at the Bahrain crossing refused to allow the renowned women's rights activist Wajeha al-Huwaider to leave the country because she did not have her guardian's permission, al-Huwaider told Human Rights Watch.... "The Saudi government is saying one thing to the Human Rights Council in Geneva but doing another thing inside the kingdom," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. Critics have referred to Saudi Arabia's practices with respect to women as "gender apartheid",
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