by admin_HRWF | Dec 14, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Closed trial in ‘terrorism court’ starts more than two years after her imprisonment for peaceful activism. By Emma Graham-Harrison The Guardian (10.12.2020) – https://bit.ly/3oSfbLv – Saudi Arabia has put a women’s rights activist, Loujain...
by admin_HRWF | Nov 18, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
UK legislator Baroness Helena Kennedy demands world leaders shun G20 meeting in Riyadh over jailed women activists. Al Jazeera (12.11.2020) – https://bit.ly/3f8jaQx – A report released by a member of the United Kingdom’s House of Lords has called on...
by admin_HRWF | May 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
– Form of corporal punishment will be replaced by jail terms, fines or a mixture of both The Guardian (25.04.2020) – https://bit.ly/3fb4T5h – Saudi Arabia is ending flogging as a form of punishment, according to a document from the kingdom’s top...
by admin_HRWF | May 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
– The Guardian (27.04.2020) – https://bit.ly/3bU4hir – The Kingdom has one of the world’s highest rates of execution and rights groups have repeatedly raised concerns about the fairness of trials. Saudi Arabia has ended the death penalty for crimes...
by admin_HRWF | Apr 15, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Male guardianship, sexual harassment amongst major concerns. By Hiba Zayadin HRW (14.04.2020) – https://bit.ly/2VvXnsp – Over the past two weeks, Saudi women have taken to Twitter, using pseudonyms, to share their experiences with sexual...