LONDON -- Saudi Arabia is seeking a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council in a vote scheduled for Oct. 9, hoping to reverse its 2020 failure to win a spot on the 47-seat body. The kingdom will do so having set a new record high in annual exec...
Reports that the Saudi Arabian government invited a United Nations Rapporteur to visit the country after Saudi Arabia was accused of human-rights abuses by Amnesty International. Reference to an Amnesty International report, 'Saudi Arabia: a secret state of suffering,' released in March 2000; ...
s a similar load of emails elsewhere that explains how Iran was able to strong-arm its way to chairing the 120-country Non-Aligned Movement, which has many members in the UNHRC. (Using this muscle, Iran submitted a resolution last month that says sanctions are a violation of human rights....
The Heat spoke to journalistKhaled Batarfiin Jeddah, Saudi Arabia where he teaches at Prince Sultan College. The Heat continued its discussion with this panel of guests: Ali Al-Ahmedjoined The Heat in Washington, D.C. Al-Ahmed is the author and founder of the Institute for Gulf Affairs. Fa...
RIYADH: Experts discussed Saudi Arabia’s latest efforts to combat human trafficking at an event in Riyadh on Wednesday. The symposium, titled “Enhancing Cooperation in Combating Trafficking in Persons,” drew attendees from a variety of fields to review anti-human trafficking policies. ...
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powers of the religious police, allowing women to drive, the first Saudi public concerts by a female singer, the first Saudi sports stadium to admit women, and an increase in women in the workforce. Despite this, his leadership and his violation of human rights have been criticized ...
Saudi Arabia has the largest easily accessible oil reserves in the world, which it sells for petrodollars. Saudi Arabia also has the 6th largest gas reserves of any nation state, nearly 5% of total global reserves.[12] Human rightsSaudi Arabia has Islamic Sharia laws which allow the death ...
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With global attention focused on upheaval elsewhere in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia quietly intensified its clampdown on dissent in 2013, silencing democracy advocates and human rights defenders with arrests, trials and intimidation in what reformists s