Category Archives: Reports
Yemen Reports
Gender-Based Violence in Yemen: A Crisis Within a Crisis
In Yemen’s protracted conflict, another devastating crisis festers largely out of sight: the epidemic of [...]
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Qatar Reports
Qatar’s Discriminatory Citizenship Laws: How New Electoral Reforms Deny Rights to the Al Murra tribe
In July 2021, Qatar approved new laws to regulate its first legislative elections, but these [...]
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United Arab Emirates Reports
Undermining Justice: The UAE’s Struggle with Judicial Independence, Human Rights, and Unfair Trials
The rule of law in the UAE faces significant challenges in ensuring judicial independence, transparency, [...]
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Qatar Reports
Freedom of Expression in Qatar
Qatar has claimed to commit to social and political reforms, yet there are still significant [...]
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Saudi Arabia Reports
FIFA’s Decision to Award Saudi Arabia as the host of the 2034 World Cup: A Step Backward for Human Rights
FIFA’s confirmation of Saudi Arabia as the host country for the 2034 World Cup has [...]
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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
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
Assessing Human Rights Conditions in Jau Prison
Bahrain, a small island in the Gulf with a population of 1.5 million, is currently [...]
Feb
Qatar: Persistent violations of foreign labor rights
In December 2010, Qatar was selected to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup. However, since [...]
Jan
Saudi Arabia: force disappearance of activists
The International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICPPED) defines “enforced [...]
Jan
Oman: Examining women’s rights and gender bias
Oman, a nation with a population of 2.6 million, is the oldest independent state in [...]
Jan