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  • Yemen
  • Armed Conflict

Yemen's horror exposes the deadly hypocrisy of arms exporters like the UK and the USA

By Rasha Mohamed, Yemen Researcher at Amnesty International and Rasha Abdul Rahim, Arms Control Campaigner at Amnesty International The airstrike on Abs Rural Hospital in Yemen's Hajjah governorate on 15 August was the fourth attack on a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in 10 months. That didn't lessen the shock. Sixteen-year-old ambulance driver Ayman Issa Bakri was among the 10 dead. He had been working there since MSF began supporting the hospital in the summer of 2015.

Date:
26 August 2016
  • Research
  • Saudi Arabia
  • International Organizations

Saudi Arabia: Submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

Amnesty International submits this briefing in advance of the September 2016 consideration of Saudi Arabia’s combined third and fourth periodic reports in respect of the country’s implementation of the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). It sets out Amnesty International’s concerns about Saudi Arabia’s use of the death penalty for offences committed by persons below 18 years of age in breach of its obligations under the CRC.

Date:
15 August 2016
Author:
Amnesty International
Ref:
MDE 23/4601/2016
  • News
  • Saudi Arabia
  • International Organizations

UN: End hypocrisy of Saudi Arabia in Human Rights Council

Ten years since it was first created the UN Human Rights Council is facing a stark moment of truth. The credibility of the world’s top human rights body, which was set up to ensure that it is able to effectively address human rights violations without being undermined by geopolitics and competing national interests, is being called into question because of the abysmal track record of one of its members – Saudi Arabia - and the failure of other members to call it to account.

Date:
1 July 2016
  • Campaigns
  • Saudi Arabia
  • War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity

3 ways Saudi Arabia is abusing human rights – and how they’re getting away with it

Amnesty International is calling for Saudi Arabia to be suspended from the UN Human Rights Council – here’s why. 1. Crackdown on activists Saudi Arabia has continued a sweeping crackdown on human rights activists. All of the country’s prominent and independent human rights defenders have been imprisoned, threatened into silence or have fled the country. More and more have been sentenced to years in prison under the country’s 2014 counter-terror law.

Date:
29 June 2016
  • Research
  • Middle East and North Africa
  • Armed Conflict

Saudi Arabia: Joint NGO Statement: Suspend Saudi Arabia from the UN Human Rights Council

We call upon the United Nations General Assembly to immediately suspend the membership rights of Saudi Arabia in the UN Human Rights Council. General Assembly Resolution 60/251, which created the Human Rights Council, provides that “the General Assembly, by a two-thirds majority of the members present and voting, may suspend the rights of membership in the Council of a member of the Council that commits gross and systematic violations of human rights.

Date:
29 June 2016
Author:
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch
Ref:
MDE 23/4345/2016
  • News
  • Saudi Arabia
  • UN

Suspend Saudi Arabia from UN Human Rights Council

Saudi Arabia has committed “gross and systematic violations of human rights” abroad and at home, and used its position on the UN Human Rights Council to effectively obstruct justice for possible war crimes, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said in a joint statement today, making a resounding call for the UN General Assembly to suspend the country’s membership of the world’s top human rights body.

Date:
29 June 2016
  • Campaigns
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Human Rights Defenders and Activists

Saudi Arabia: Another ACPRA member sentenced to prison: Abdulaziz al-Shubaily

Human rights defender Abdulaziz al-Shubaily has been convicted and sentenced on 29 May to eight years in prison by the Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh for his peaceful human rights activism. He is one of the founding members of the Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA) and if imprisoned he will be a prisoner of conscience.

Date:
17 June 2016
Author:
Amnesty International
Ref:
MDE 23/4272/2016
  • Research
  • Middle East and North Africa
  • Armed Conflict

Saudi Arabia: Joint NGO Letter: An open letter to Ban Ki-Moon

As organizations working to protect the rights of children and health workers in armed conflict, we are shocked by your decision announced on June 6, 2016 to remove the Saudi Arabia-led Coalition from the “list of shame” annexed to your published 2016 annual report to the United Nations Security Council on children and armed conflict, “pending the conclusions of [a] joint review” of the cases and numbers included in the text.

Date:
8 June 2016
Author:
Amnesty International
Ref:
MDE 23/4233/2016
  • News
  • Middle East and North Africa
  • Armed Conflict

UN: Shameful pandering to Saudi Arabia over children killed in Yemen conflict

The credibility of the United Nations is on the line after it shamefully caved in to pressure to remove the Saudi Arabia-led military coalition from the UN’s list of states and armed groups that violate children’s rights in conflict, Amnesty International said today. Last night a spokesperson for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced the change to the list published on 2 June as part of an annual report by his Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict.

Date:
7 June 2016
  • Research
  • Middle East and North Africa
  • Armed Conflict

Saudi Arabia should be held to account for gross and systematic human rights violations: statement to the UN Human Rights Council

Amnesty International’s written statement to the 32nd session of the UN Human Rights Council (13 June - 1 July 2016). In this submission, Amnesty International provides information on gross and systematic violation of human rights by Saudi Arabia during its membership of the Council, and calls on Members of this Council to be seized of the issue and take steps to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for commission of these violations during its membership.

Date:
30 May 2016
Author:
Amnesty International
Ref:
MDE 23/4139/2016
  • Article
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Human Rights Defenders and Activists

Saudi Arabia: Counter-terror court sentences activist for exposing systematic human rights violations

Saudi Arabia’s authorities today continued their relentless efforts to stamp out independent human rights activism by sentencing another key activist to eight years in prison, Amnesty International said today. Abdulaziz al-Shubaily, is the only active founding member of the Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA), an independent human rights organization, who is not behind bars. He was tried at the Specialized Criminal Court (SCC) and sentenced under a repressive counter-terrorism law.

Date:
29 May 2016