Speaking at the UN Human Rights Council, Ambassador Khothaila highlighted Saudi Arabia’s significant diplomatic efforts to mediate the conflict. He pointed to the Jeddah talks, hosted by Saudi ...

She said the council wholeheartedly condemned "any human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia or anywhere else in the world", but added diplomacy needed to occur on a national level. John Hird ...

Human rights ... the Council of Ministers issued a decision placing new limits on foreigners holding public sector jobs and prohibiting foreign workers with less than ten years in Saudi Arabia ...

In ascending to the body, the Saudi government will serve alongside fellow Middle Eastern dictatorship and human-rights luminary Iran, which joined in 2014. That’s the same Saudi Arabia that ...

Two successive terms of U.S. membership on the UN Human Rights Council ... routinely elects to the council egregious rights violators such as China, Saudi Arabia, and, until recently, Russia.

Hillel Neuer, executive director of the human right group UN Watch, said of the designation of Saudi Arabia to the Women’s rights Commission: “It’s surreal. Electing Saudi Arabia to head the ...

The UN's decision ... been used in Saudi Arabia to monitor and control women's movements, according to the non-profit European Centre for Democracy and Human Rights. In 2019, it highlighted ...

Saudi Arabia's permanent representative to the United Nations and international organizations in Geneva Abdulmohsen bin Khathaila stressed, during his speech before the Human Rights Council on the ...

Human Rights Watch continues to document rampant abuses in Saudi Arabia’s criminal justice system, including long periods of detention without charge or trial, denial of legal assistance ...

But the reality for people living in Saudi Arabia, is one where their basic human rights are ignored, their freedoms are restricted and punishment is severe. For example, blogger Raif Badawi was ...