Saudi Arabia’s mobile app Absher is used to prevent Saudi women from leaving their country without a male relative’s permission.
Monday, 6 May , 2019The US government commission on religious freedom on Friday urged action against ally Saudi Arabia after its mass execution of 37 people, most of them Shiite Muslims.
Saturday, 27 April , 2019Major civil liberties, media freedom, and human rights groups speak out against the arrest of Julian Assange.
Wednesday, 17 April , 2019Saudi Arabia named Princess Reema Bint Bandar Bin Sultan its new ambassador to the United States, making her the first woman to hold the title.
Wednesday, 17 April , 2019The Saudi activist will drive across the US to bring awareness to Americans of the strict guardianship laws in her country – ‘I’m turning 40 today, and my son is still my guardian’
Saturday, 13 April , 2019In the latest issue, Erika Weinthal and Jeannie Sowers reveal the damage to water, agriculture and energy systems caused by the ongoing conflict in Gaza and the West Bank.
Wednesday, 10 April , 2019Europe has no morals, no ethics no nothing, a report by Global Research.
Wednesday, 10 April , 2019The human rights crisis in Xinjiang, a region in northwestern China home to several Muslim minority groups, is being compared to Soviet atrocities in Ukraine and the horrors perpetrated by Nazi Germany.
Wednesday, 10 April , 2019U.S. President Donald Trump spoke with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman by phone on Tuesday, discussing Riyadh’s role in Middle East stability, maintaining pressure on Iran and the importance of human rights issues, the White House said.
Wednesday, 10 April , 2019President Donald Trump welcomed Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to the White House for the second time Tuesday, lavishing praise on the Egyptian President who has been accused of human rights abuses.
Wednesday, 10 April , 2019Those detained, seven men and one woman, are not frontline activists but have expressed support for women’s rights and other reforms.
Sunday, 7 April , 2019Brushing back pressure from Washington, Mohammed bin Salman escalated his crackdown on even the mildest forms of dissent with the arrests this week of at least nine intellectuals, journalists, activists and their family members, according to rights groups and a Saudi associate of the detainees.
Saturday, 6 April , 2019Malaysia’s decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) barely a month after joining makes a mockery of the government’s commitment to justice, Human Rights Watch said today.
Saturday, 6 April , 2019Emirati authorities detained eight Lebanese nationals for more than a year without charge in an unknown location, ill-treating them and denying them their due process rights, Human Rights Watch said today.
Wednesday, 27 March , 2019Italy’s La Scala opera house has decided to return more than 3 million euros ($3.4 million) in funding to Saudi Arabia after a plan to work closely with the country was widely criticized, including by members of the governing League party.
Tuesday, 19 March , 2019A court in Chechnya has sentenced a prominent human rights worker to four years prison in a case that has been widely condemned by international rights organizations as fabricated and intended to further suffocate dissent in the troubled Russian republic.
Tuesday, 19 March , 2019The Trump administration is coming under fire for its refusal to engage with international human rights monitors over potential violations inside the US, from police brutality and executions to the abuse of migrant children at the border.
Monday, 18 March , 2019Police say a local TV journalist was shot and killed in eastern Afghanistan, less than a week after a journalist in the southern Helmand province was wounded by a sticky bomb attached to his car.
Sunday, 17 March , 2019It is one of five anti-Israel resolutions the UNHRC is set to debate on Monday and will vote on toward the end of the week.
Saturday, 16 March , 2019The UN Security Council met behind closed doors on Wednesday, to discuss the latest findings of the global chemical weapons watchdog in Syria.
Friday, 8 March , 2019