Category Archives: Saudi Arabia
Bahrain
Elderly HRDs face abuse and human rights violations in Bahrain
On 13th September 2024, ADHRB delivered an intervention at the United Nation Human Rights Council [...]
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Bahrain
On 12th September 2024, ECDHR and other NGOs delivered an intervention at the United Nation [...]
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Yemen Reports
Gender-Based Violence in Yemen: A War Weapon Ignored
The conflict in Yemen has seen a horrifying increase in gender-based violence (GBV). This troubling [...]
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Briefing Papers Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia’s digital rights hypocrisy
The intersection of human rights and digital rights has become increasingly critical as digital technologies [...]
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Countries GCC Member States Qatar Reports Saudi Arabia United Arab Emirates
Gulf Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment in Western Sports Teams
Introduction The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have notoriously been accused of sportswashing, a tactic [...]
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The nomination of Saudi Arabia for the presidency of the United Nations Women’s Rights Commission
At the end of March 2024, Saudi Arabia was appointed to chair the 69th session [...]
Apr
The ban on withholding worker’s passports under the light of the 2020 executive regulations
For decades, migrant workers who moved to Saudi Arabia have faced hardships in seeing their [...]
Apr
Silent Slaughter: The Untold Tragedy of Migrants at the Yemen-Saudi Border
Last August, Human Rights Watch revealed that between March 2022, and June 2023 the Saudi [...]
Apr
New assault on freedom of expression in Saudi Arabia: 12 football fans imprisoned for peaceful chants
On 27 March 2024 Amnesty International and eight other civil society organizations issued a joint [...]
Apr
NGOs at HRC55: War Crimes Against The Populations Of Yemen and Palestine Must Come To An End
On March 21st, ECDHR and other NGOs delivered an oral intervention at the United Nation [...]
Mar
The Kafala System in Saudi Arabia
In the 1950s, several Middle Eastern nations began facilitating a significant influx of foreign laborers [...]
Mar
Torture in Saudi Arabia Through the Universal Periodic Review
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is an important mechanism that involves peer assessments of UN [...]
Mar
Migrants rights in Saudi Arabia Through the Universal Periodic Review
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a key mechanism that assesses, encourages, and broadens a [...]
Feb
Women’s Rights in Saudi Arabia Through the Universal Periodic Review
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a unique procedure of the United Nations Human Rights [...]
Feb
Saudi Arabia: force disappearance of activists
The International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICPPED) defines “enforced [...]
Jan