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Machinist at Watson’s, the sackmakers, Baltic Chambers from Quayside
The World Economic Forum 2009 Global Gender Gap Report ranked Saudi Arabia 131st out of 134 countries for gender parity. (The US ranked 22nd.)
All Saudi women are “guarded” (owned) by a male (father, brother, or husband). Not surprisingly, most domestic abuse is not reported.
So, depending on where it’s running, this ad for the King Khalid Foundation is important news. Because female abuse is “a phenomenon found in the dark,” as the Foundation says on their No More Abuse page.
Ad agency: Memac Ogilvy, Riyadh.
Related: Iranian posters warn against sexual harassment.
Have you seen Artists Against Fracking’s ad in The New York Times? Please share and keep the pressure on Governor Cuomo.
http://artistsagainstfracking.com/have-you-seen-our-ad/This is a very important issue in New York and around the world. Please share.
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Ask for work. If they don’t give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.
Now a high priest of their religion was not allowed to carry arms or to ride except on a mare. So, girded with a sword, he took a spear in his hand and mounting the king’s stallion he set off to where the idols were. The common people who saw him thought he was mad. But as soon as he approached the shrine, without any hesitation he profaned it by casting the spear which he held into it; and greatly rejoicing in the knowledge of the worship of the true God, he ordered his companions to destroy and set fire to the shrine and all the enclosures.
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