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	Human Rights in Saudi Arabia: A Deafening Silence (Human Rights Watch Backgrounder, December 2001)
		Saudi Arabia's diversity, in terms of geographic regions and various schools of Islamic law, is not represented in the governing structure of the country.
		Saudi Arabia is a state party to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
		Saudi women do not enjoy freedom of movement, are not permitted to drive, and lack equal rights with men with respect to transmission of their nationality to their children.
	hrw.org /backgrounder/mena/saudi (6216 words)

	Human rights in Saudi Arabia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Saudi Arabia is one of a number of countries where courts continue to impose corporal punishment, including amputations of hands and feet for robbery, and lashings for lesser crimes such as "sexual deviance" and drunkenness.
		Human Rights activists have suggested that the United States, the United Kingdom and many Western European countries have been hypocritical due to their strong condemnation of human rights record of Saddam Hussein (see Iraq War) but their complete silence regarding the unsatisfactory human rights record in Saudi Arabia [15].
		Human rights activists have claimed that many Western governments have oil interests in Saudi Arabia and have a vested interest in protecting the status quo in Saudi Arabia because the saudi Royal family has been so favorable to the West regarding the supply of oil [16].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Human_rights_in_Saudi_Arabia (1726 words)

	Saudi Arabia Human Rights Practices, 1995 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The oil industry has transformed Saudi Arabia from a pastoral, agricultural, and commercial society to a rapidly urbanizing one characterized by large-scale infrastructure projects, the emergence of a welfare state, and millions of foreign workers.
		They harassed Saudi and foreign women for failure to observe strict dress codes, and for being in the company of males who are not their close relatives.
		Citations of Saudi human rights abuses by international monitors or foreign governments are routinely ignored or condemned by the Government as assaults on Islam.
	www.usemb.se /human/human95/saudiara.htm (7175 words)

	Saudi Arabia Human rights violations kerala indian workers drug crime keralamonitor
		Saudi Arabia is not a party to two bedrock human rights treaties, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
		Saudi Arabia is a state party to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD), but the government has done little to bring practical meaning to the treaty's guarantees.
		The rights of women migrant workers are compromised by the prevailing gender segregation in the kingdom, restrictions on freedom of expression (particularly dress codes) and freedom of movement, and gender inequality in the justice system.
	www.keralamonitor.com /saudimigrantlabourabuse.html (6054 words)

	Amnesty International: Saudi Arabia campaign website
		Saudi Arabia’s human rights record has been subject to some scrutiny under a confidential procedure for consideration of complaints of a "consistent pattern of gross human rights violations" by the Commission — the "1503" procedure.8 Such complaints are submitted not by governments, but by individuals and organizations concerned with human rights.
		Saudi Arabia’s policy of expanding the scope of capital punishment is contrary to the worldwide trend towards restriction and abolition of this punishment.
		Saudi Arabia’s position on the use of the death penalty against child offenders is stated in the "Report of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia On The Measures Adopted For The Implementation Of The Convention On The Rights Of The Child", submitted to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in 1998.
	www.amnesty.org /ailib/intcam/saudi/report.html (10906 words)

	1997 Human Rights Reports: Saudi Arabia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Saudi Arabia is a monarchy without elected representative institutions or political parties.
		Mutawwa'in frequently remonstrated with Saudi and foreign women for failure to observe strict dress codes, arrested men and women found together who were not married or otherwise close relatives, and arrested men suspected of homosexual activity.
		Saudiization is the Government's attempt to decrease the number of expatriates working in certain occupations and to replace them with Saudi workers.
	www.usemb.se /human/human97/saudiara.html (7861 words)

	1995 Human Rights Report: SAUDI ARABIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The oil industry has transformed Saudi Arabia from a pastoral, agricultural, and commercial society to a rapidly urbanizing one characterized by large-scale infrastructure projects, the emergence of a welfare state, and millions of foreign workers.
		They harassed Saudi and foreign women for failure to observe strict dress codes, and for being in the company of males who are not their close relatives.
		Citations of Saudi human rights abuses by international monitors or foreign governments are routinely ignored or condemned by the Government as assaults on Islam.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/democracy/1995_hrp_report/95hrp_report_nea/SaudiArabia.html (7281 words)

	Human Rights in Saudi Arabia - Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions
		Majda Mustapha Mahir, a 40-year-old Moroccan woman who is reportedly at risk of imminent execution in Saudi Arabia, where she was sentenced to death for the murder of her husband seven years ago.
		Initially, and after verifying its authenticity, the Saudi Police reportedly accepted her version of the facts and her statement that the death was accidental.
		Under Saudi Arabian law, they reportedly have the right to decide whether he should be pardoned, have to pay blood money in order to gain his freedom, or whether he should be executed.
	www.extrajudicialexecutions.org /communications/saudi_arabia.html (3164 words)

	Christian Persecution in Saudi Arabia
		Despite the fact that historically, Saudi Arabia once had a large Christian population, the arrival of Islam in the 7th Century changed the face of the country entirely.
		Saudi Arabia currently has one of the worst records of all countries on human rights and there is no freedom of religion.
		The use of false charges as a means to deal harshly with Christians is common in countries such as Saudi Arabia and China, where there is strong opposition to Christianity.
	www.human-rights-and-christian-persecution.org /saudi-arabia.html (679 words)

	Saudi Arabia
		Saudi Arabia is a monarchy ruled by the Al Saud family without elected representative institutions at the national level and with a 2004 population of approximately 26.7 million of which an estimated 7 million were foreign citizens.
		Local human rights activists criticized the pardon because the political reformers were released without actual due process and open trials, meaning that the reformers were "unconditionally" pardoned rather than found "not guilty" and thus continued to be defined as convicted criminals.
		Although they have the right to own property and are entitled to financial support from their husbands or male relatives, women have few political or social rights and were not treated as equal members of society.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61698.htm (12996 words)

	Saudi Human Rights Center
		One of the drawbacks of the international proclamations of human rights, and some [human rights] organizations, is that [they focus on the] rights of the individual as the one and only thing [to be considered].
		Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world where a female cannot leave without written permission from her closest male relative.
		One daughter, Maha, was rescued in Malaysia, and one is still in Saudi Arabia, having been married off by the father to keep her in the country.
	www.saudihr.org /en/welcome.htm (1803 words)

	The Center for Democracy & Human Rights in Saudi Arabia : Main - Home Page
		The Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia (CDHR) was established to promote a peaceful transformation of Saudi political, social, religious, educational and economic institutions.
		With its large oil reserves and centrality to the 1.2 billion adherents of Islam, Saudi Arabia could be a force for democratization in Arab and Muslim countries and communities worldwide.
		Transformation of the Saudi educational system to provide a curriculum for all ages, genders and educational institutions that is tolerant of others and free from teaching hate, fanaticism and intolerance.
	www.cdhr.info (414 words)

	The Center for Democracy & Human Rights in Saudi Arabia : Issues - Saudi Arabia
		Additionally, Saudi Arabia sits atop around one-fourth of the world’s known oil reserves and is the world’s largest net oil exporter, lubricating the wheels of the world’s global economy.
		Women are forbidden from driving in Saudi Arabia, men and women are strictly segregated in restaurants, hospital waiting rooms, and buses—where women ride in the back of the bus even if it is not filled—and, in some cases, within their own homes.
		Saudis are bypassed in favor of cheap, submissive laborers, mostly from poorer Asian or African countries, who accept any terms without complaint due to their constant fear of arrest or deportation.
	www.cdhr.info /Issues/SaudiArabia (3242 words)

	Gay rights in Saudi Arabia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gay rights are not recognized in Saudi Arabia and homosexuality is a crime punishable by death.
		Saudi citizens are given access to the latest AIDS treatment medications, regardless of their ability to pay.
		Some officials within the Saudi Arabian embassy in Washington D.C. have implied that homosexuals are only put to death when found to be convicted of child molestation, murder or engaging in anything deemed to be a form of political advocacy [7].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gay_rights_in_Saudi_Arabia (1215 words)

	Questions of Human Rights - The Saudi Arabia Information Resource
		It should be aware of the danger of bundling together with legitimate universal human rights, rights that are demanded by those espousing a permissive moral philosophy in a largely secular society.
		On the other hand, when, for example, someone argues that capital punishment is an abuse of human rights, we are entering the realm of opinion where it is perfectly reasonable to hold a different view.
		Saudi Arabian opinion is that capital punishment is the most effective way of safeguarding the most basic human right; the right to live.
	www.saudinf.com /main/x004.htm (493 words)

	Human Rights Watch: Middle East and Northern Africa : Saudi Arabia
		Human Rights Watch is again writing to you regarding travel bans that the Saudi government has imposed arbitrarily on at least 22 Saudi citizens.
		Saudi Arabia should immediately end its discrimination against its 100,000 Chadian residents, most of whom were born in the kingdom but are increasingly denied the rights to basic education and emergency healthcare, Human Rights Watch said today.
		Saudi Arabia’s decision to target Chadian children for expulsion from school is arbitrary and discriminatory.
	www.hrw.org /doc?t=mideast&c=saudia (1445 words)

	INDOlink - Diaspora - Saudi Arabia Violates Human Rights Of Indian Workers
		The rulers of Saudi Arabia cannot pretend to preside over a modern state without addressing these problems with an urgency that matches their declared war on terror, says Virginia Sherry, the author of the report and associate director of the Middle East and North Africa division of Human Rights Watch.
		Human Rights Watch says that as the voices of scores of migrant workers returned from Saudi Arabia make clear, the Saudi government must tackle these abuses, and the international community must insist they do so urgently.
		Furthermore it notes that the rulers of Saudi Arabia cannot pretend to preside over a modern state without addressing the systemic abuse of foreign workers with an urgency that matches their declared war on terror.
	www.indolink.com /displayArticleS.php?id=062105013542 (2315 words)

	U.S. Arms Clients Profiles--SAUDI ARABIA
		Saudi Arabia’s position as a strategic Gulf ally has blinded U.S. officials into approving a level and quality of arms exports that should never have been allowed to a non-democratic country with a poor human rights record.
		Saudi Arabia tried, and failed, to conquer Yemen, which lies on its southern border, during its consolidation of the Kingdom in the 1930s.
		Saudi Arabia expelled between 500,000 and 800,000 Yemenis in 1990 and 1991 to punish Yemen for its opposition to the war against Iraq.
	www.fas.org /asmp/profiles/saudi_arabia.htm (3433 words)

	Saudi Arabia Human Rights
		Saudi Arabia is a monarchy without elected representative institutions or political parties.
		In December, journalists for national newspapers the Saudi Gazette and Al-Madina were arrested and later released at the trial of the reformers arrested in March.
		The human rights NGO Human Rights First-Ðthe Society for Protecting and Defending Human Rights in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia--continued to operate without official government recognition.
	www.multied.com /nationbynation/SaudiArabia/Human.html (11921 words)

	Saudi Arabia, human rights: text of 1970 memo on human rights in Saudi Arabia
		Saudi Arabia's failure to join was not, as we shall see, due to its disapproval of the aims of the Declaration and the Covenant which stands for the dignity of man as outlined in their provisions, but:
		Such human rights which have not yet been attained by any State were observed, in abidance with the Sayings of the Prophet, prior to the construction of schools or Houses of Learning.
		III Prohibiting the remaining Arabs in Palestine of the right of movement and the selection of their places of residence within the State, which is contrary to Article 13 of Human rights.
	www.saudiembassy.net /Issues/HRights/hr-memo.html (4540 words)

	First independent human rights organization in Saudi Arabia
		Saudi Arabia is opening up its economy to attract investment and generate opportunities for its citizens.
		Saudi charities are currently barred from sending any funds abroad, pending the full functioning of an oversight body, the Saudi National Commission for Relief and Charity Work Abroad, set up in March, 2004.
		Saudi Arabia and the United States established a joint task force in August 2003 to deal with terror financing.
	www.saudiembassy.net /2004News/Press/PressDetail.asp?cIndex=193 (912 words)

	Saudi Arabia - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The announcement coincided with an international conference in Riyadh entitled “Human Rights in War and Peace?” The conference, to which AI was not invited, was said to have avoided touching on the human rights situation in the country.
		The Saudi Arabian authorities said that the handover was part of bilateral security cooperation agreements to “fight terrorism”, but did not provide details of the names of those handed over or any criminal accusations against them.
		The detainees were not known to have been given the opportunity to challenge the decision of their forcible return on the grounds that they faced serious risk of human rights violations in their countries.
	web.amnesty.org /report2004/sau-summary-eng (1649 words)

	Middle East Transparent – Saudi Arabia: Foreign Workers Abused (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Last year the Saudi government invited a Human Rights Watch delegation to visit the kingdom for talks with officials, but has not responded to numerous requests for permission to carry out field research, including meeting with victims of abuse.
		The report documents the failure of the Saudi government to enforce its own labor laws in the face of significant abuses of foreign workers by their employers.
		Human Rights Watch said that forced confinement of workers, in particular women workers, should be a criminal offense under Saudi law.
	www.metransparent.com /texts/saudi_human_watch_english.htm (794 words)

	Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery in Saudi Arabia
		Human Trafficking and Modern-day Slavery in Saudi Arabia
		The Saudi government has denied a recent report released by the US Department of State ranking the kingdom as one of the largest human traffickers in the world.
		Al-Faisal said Saudi Arabia has imposed regulations to control mistreatment of servants and employees, prosecuted those accused of mistreatment and opened shelters for victims.
	gvnet.com /humantrafficking/SaudiArabia.htm (1122 words)

	Oil Hungry US Ignores Human Rights Abuses Of Saudi Arabia
		Despite a history of arbitrary arrests, torture, unfair trials and harsh punishments such as flogging and beheading, Saudi Arabia has never been held to the same human rights standards that Washington and its allies apply to China, Myanmar, Sudan and other nations accused of widespread repression, the human rights group said.
		In addition to an annual report detailing the human rights situation in most of the world's countries, Amnesty International issues one detailed report each year focusing on a single country.
		Even so, she said, "there is a disconnect between the human rights report and U.S. foreign policy." For economic and diplomatic reasons, she said, U.S. policy glosses over the human rights situation in the kingdom.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines/032800-01.htm (733 words)

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