News stories by Uma Mishra-Newbery
Campaign to Whitewash Saudi Arabia’s Image Does Little for Women in the Kingdom
- Inter Press Service

GENEVA, May 08 (IPS) - Uma Mishra-Newbery is the Interim Executive Director of Women's March Global, which is a founding member of the Free Saudi Women Coalition & Kristina Stockwood works with the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), which is a founding member of the Free Saudi Women Coalition.
Amid a high-profile public relations campaign to convince the world just how much the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is modernising – highlighted in last year's lifting of the ban on women driving – Saudi authorities continue their relentless persecution of women human rights defenders.

