SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT

Human Rights and Social Responsibility

Princess Hussa is the honorary president of the Saudi Social Responsibility Association, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development.

Princess Hussa worked as an independent advisor to the governmental Human Rights Commission in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia between 2008 and 2011 and helped launch national campaigns against domestic violence with the Al-Nahda philanthropic society, in Riyadh, in 2008. She published an article highlighting the need for a minimum age for marriage, in 2010.

Princess Hussa participated in the Saudi Red Crescent Human Rights Conference, in Riyadh, in 2003, where she presented a paper on Saudi Arabia and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. She later fostered a national campaign, entitled Ijra'i (my procedure), aimed at increasing Saudi women's knowledge of their rights, by means of expanding their culture and awareness.

Supporting Women's Development

Princess Hussa has inaugurated women’s universities in Riyadh and been the inspirational keynote speaker at women’s university graduation ceremonies in Riyadh and Jeddah. As a keen believer that women’s participation is key to the success of the Kingdom, Princess Hussa chaired meetings of businesswomen, in Riyadh, to support and facilitate their successful quest for a women’s section in the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry in 2004.

As a pupil, Princess Hussa was the first editor-in-chief of Al-Riyadh School magazine for girls, which was founded with the assistance of her late brother, Prince Ahmed bin Salman, then Chairman of Saudi Research and Marketing Group (SRMG). Princess Hussa has worked with SRMG to support humanitarian and philanthropic initiatives, as well as to give voice to women’s opinions and writing, in the past. Princess Hussa was Executive Head of the second forum for Saudi Women in Media, entitled “A Media Vision of Economic Prospects” in 2007.

Lectures

Lecture on “An Introduction to International Human Rights Law and Islamic Human Rights Law”, at King Saud University, Riyadh, 2014

Lecture on findings of MA thesis at Saudi Red Crescent Society’s “Human Rights in Peace and War” Conference, Riyadh, October 2003

Lecture on "The Impact of Art on Society" at the Saudi Centre of Art, Jeddah, January 2001

Participant in a lecture on "The Role of Saudi Women in the Saudi War of Unity" at King Abdulaziz Foundation for Research and Archives, Riyadh, March 1999

Philanthropy

Her Royal Highness has from a young age been actively involved in social and charity work, following in her mother’s philanthropic footsteps and representing her father in the women’s world in Saudi Arabia. She is a member and supporter of numerous social and charity centres, in the Kingdom and abroad.