On 2 October 2018, Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to obtain official documents in order to get married, but he did not make it out alive. He was brutally killed inside the consulate in what the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Dr Agnes Callamard, called a “premeditated extrajudicial[…]
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23 September 2019 – Today, during the 42nd session of the Human Rights Council, 20 states issued a joint statement on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, citing concern at the continued reports of torture, arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearance, and unfair trials, and the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. The group called on Saudi Arabia to uphold[…]
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Today, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) delivered an oral intervention at the 42nd Session of the Human Rights Council during the General Debate under Item 5. ADHRB raised concerns about Saudi Arabia’s membership to the Council, highlighting its continuous disregard for human rights. Click here for the PDF format and find below[…]
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19 September 2019 – Today, during the 42nd session of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) along with the European Centre for Democracy & Human Rights (ECDHR), the European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights (ESOHR), ALQST, MENA Rights Group and the Right[…]
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Kuwait Kuwait OL 8 Mar. 2019 KWT 1/2019 Mandates: Business, Development, Environment, Foreign debt, Indigenous peoples, International order, Water and sanitation Alleged victims: – Concerns in relation to the ongoing work of the Working Group III on Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) Reform. “. . . [W]e wish to express our overarching concerns that international investment[…]
