Category Archives: Saudi Arabia
Reports Saudi Arabia
WTA and Women’s Rights in Saudi Arabia
On April 4 2024, the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) finalized an agreement with the Saudi [...]
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Bahrain Reports
Brutal Crackdown: Voices Silenced – Pro-Palestine Demonstrators, Including Innocent Children, Face Harrowing Suppression in Bahrain Since October 2023
On the 15th of December 2023, the Bahraini police arrested 57 people, including 25 children, [...]
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Reports Saudi Arabia
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 [...]
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Countries Saudi Arabia
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 [...]
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Reports Saudi Arabia Yemen
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 [...]
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European Parliament resolution on Saudi Arabia highlights women’s rights
In a new resolution on Saudi Arabia adopted by the European Parliament, MEPs highlighted not [...]
Jul
Death penalty in Saudi Arabia condemned by European Parliament in resolution
On Thursday 8 July 2021, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the death penalty [...]
Jul
Women’s Rights and Torture in Saudi Arabia
To mark the International Day of Victims of Torture, ECDHR presents an article that examines [...]
Jun
Saudi Arabia: Letter to the EEAS on Women’s Rights Defenders
In an open letter, around 50 EU Parliamentarians from different political parties have addressed HR/VP [...]
May
Invisible Chains: Legal and Structural Challenges Facing Women’s Rights Defenders in Saudi Arabia
Yesterday, on International Women’s Day 2021, ECDHR together with ALQST hosted a panel event on [...]
Mar
Free at last? The long road for Saudi women’s rights defenders, post-imprisonment
It was November 2020. Global media were inundating diverse audiences with updates on the heated [...]
Mar
No Way Out: The Crisis of Women’s Rights Defense and Activism in Saudi Arabia
On 13 October 2020, Al Jazeera broke the news that Saudi Arabia is poised to [...]
Oct
Saudi Arabia | The end of the death penalty for minors
Saudi Arabia, which for many years now has been at the top of the executioner [...]
Jun
GCC Countries and Migrant Workers: Background Facts
The presence of migrant workers in the member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), [...]
May
“My sister refused to give up on making life better for women in Saudi Arabia” – Linda AlHathloul
Not even a fortnight ago, on International Women’s Day, a group of UN experts urged [...]
Mar