Saudi-Arabia

Across the globe many women and girls still face discrimination on the basis of sex and gender. Gender inequality underpins many problems which...

Saudi Arabia’s continued violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms and the deteriorating situation in the kingdom through its sustained campaign of...

Typical conditions placed on women human rights defenders released from prison have included bans on travelling abroad, bans on working, and severe...

Canadian law bans the sale of weapons where there is a risk they will be misused. Saudi forces are fighting in the civil war in Yemen, and are the chief...

New accounts have emerged of alleged torture of high-profile political detainees in Saudi prisons.

“Saudi Arabia cannot rehabilitate its international image so long as it harasses, arrests, and tortures its critics into submission or makes them flee abroad”

“The United States government should impose sanctions against the Crown Prince, as it has done for the other perpetrators – targeting his personal assets but...

British officials authorised the export of almost £1.4bn of weapons to Saudi Arabia in the quarter after the UK resumed sales of weapons that could be used...

Saudi Arabia face international criticism for its human rights record most of the times. Political prisoners are held in detention, and democracy is silenced...

"Making billions from arms exports which fuel the conflict while providing a small fraction of that in aid to Yemen is both immoral and incoherent. The...

Unfortunately, at a time of untold human suffering, the Trump administration has made drastic cuts to international aid to Yemen, including the suspension of...

The Trump administration argues that its partnership with Saudi Arabia helps reduce civilian killings in Yemen. But State Department investigators and other...

Both the CIA and a UN special envoy have directly linked Prince Mohammed to the killing. Khashoggi, who was living in exile, had been openly critical of...

The United States State Department's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has found the administration of President Donald Trump skirted laws regulating US...

The Saudi-led coalition received British training on naval tactics that are said to have been used to blockade Yemen, an embargo which UN experts have...

Torture seeks to annihilate the victim’s personality and denies the inherent dignity of the human being. Despite the absolute prohibition of torture under...

The Trump administration is pursuing a new deal to provide precision-guided munitions to Saudi Arabia, as prior sales to the kingdom are facing new scrutiny.

Around 80 per cent of the Yemeni population need humanitarian assistance.More than half of Yemen’s hospitals and clinics have been destroyed or closed, the...

Saudi Arabia’s ‘reform drive’ cannot be considered credible as long as peaceful activists are still being targeted for their work.

Promises that Germany would be highly selective about weapons exports to avoid complicity in atrocities in Yemen are "nothing but hot air." Since 2019,...