From the Gulf Institute for Human Rights:
HRW: UN: A Call to Free Saudi Women Activists
March 07,2019
A joint statement by 36 countries on March 7, 2019 calling on Saudi Arabia to improve its human rights record was a landmark step toward justice and accountability, Human Rights Watch said today.
It was the first time ever that governments, members of the United Nations Human Rights Council, have criticized their fellow member, the Saudi government.
At least some of these governments are rather Johnny-come-latelies and may stand accused of hypocrisy. Eg, the governments of the United Kingdom and of Belgium helped the Saudi regime to get into the the United Nations Human Rights Council and into the United Nations Women’s Rights Commission. Both governments still help selling British weapons and Belgian weapons to the Saudi absolute monarchy and their partners in war crimes, the UAE absolute…
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