Advocacy & Campaigns

ALQST raises individual cases as well as patterns and new trends of human rights violations with various international, regional and national bodies, including the UN human rights system, EU institutions and the British parliament, as well as individual stakeholders such as diplomats and companies doing business with Saudi Arabia. ALQST also conducts global campaigns via social media activity as well as online materials and in-person protests to raise awareness about human rights violations.

Briefings

Assault on Freedom of Movement: The Use of Arbitrary Travel Bans in Saudi Arabia

An Open Field for Violations: Saudi Arabia’s 2034 FIFA World Cup bid

Neom: A human rights and environmental impact assessment

Abdulrahman al-Sadhan: Humanitarian worker sentenced to 20 years in prison

Girls’ and Women’s ‘Care Institutions’ in Saudi Arabia (Dar al-Re‘aya)

A Soft Touch? Human Rights and the UK-Saudi Relationship

Articles

Advocacy & Campaigns 60th session of the UN Human Rights Council: ALQST and partners highlight ongoing serious rights concerns in Saudi Arabia
This September 2025, ALQST for Human Rights participated in the 60th Session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC60) in Geneva.
2025-10-03
Advocacy & Campaigns Riyadh Comedy Festival no laughing matter in context of gross human rights abuses
The great irony of the Riyadh Comedy Festival currently taking place is that its hosts continue to suppress peaceful free speech and satirical comment among their country’s own citizens.
2025-09-30
Advocacy & Campaigns ALQST and partners deliver oral statements at UN Human Rights Council highlighting urgent human rights concerns in Saudi Arabia
On 16 September 2025, during the 60th Session of the UN Human Rights Council, ALQST, in collaboration with the Gulf Centre for Human Rights and MENA Rights Group, delivered two joint oral statements.
2025-09-18
Advocacy & Campaigns The Saudi Human Rights Commission: 20 years of whitewashing the Kingdom’s human rights record
On the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the SHRC, the undersigned organisations draw attention to the persistent and systemic failure of this institution to function as an independent NHRI.
2025-09-12
Advocacy & Campaigns Joint appeal for justice for Indian victim of Saudi Arabia’s kafala system
We, the undersigned organisations, strongly condemn the forced labour, financial extortion and gross abuse suffered by Indian expatriate Ahmed Abdul Majeed at the hands of his Saudi employer, Seera Group.
2025-09-12
Advocacy & Campaigns UK must overhaul response to transnational repression
Victims of transnational repression (TNR) in the UK may lose trust in the British system to take the threats to them seriously, a Select Committee inquiry has been told.
2025-07-23
Advocacy & Campaigns Joint Statement on the Continued Arbitrary Detention of Lawyer and Human Rights Defender Waleed Abu al-Khair
We, the undersigned organisations, express grave concern regarding the ongoing arbitrary detention of lawyer and human rights defender Waleed Abu al-Khair since April 15, 2014.
2025-07-07
Advocacy & Campaigns ALQST and GCHR deliver oral statement at UN Human Rights Council addressing the execution crisis in Saudi Arabia
On 18 June 2025, during the UN Human Rights Council (HRC)’s 59th Session, ALQST and the Gulf Centre for Human Rights delivered a joint oral statement addressing the execution crisis in Saudi Arabia.
2025-07-04
Advocacy & Campaigns British MPs table Early Day Motion on human rights in Saudi Arabia
A group of British MPs this week tabled an Early Day Motion (EDM) in parliament on human rights in Saudi Arabia, calling on the UK Government to actively raise pressing rights issues with Saudi authorities.
2025-06-12
Advocacy & Campaigns UK parliamentarians urge Foreign Secretary to advocate for al-Otaibi sisters in Saudi Arabia
A cross-party group of 10 UK parliamentarians has written to Foreign Secretary urging the UK government to use all available diplomatic tools to address the cases of Saudi sisters Manahel and Maryam al-Otaibi.
2025-05-20
Advocacy & Campaigns ALQST joins World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
ALQST for Human Rights is pleased to announce that it has become an official member of the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty (WCADP).
2025-04-17
Advocacy & Campaigns Saudi Arabia: Public Investment Fund Meeting Whitewashes Abuses
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) is sponsoring an investment conference in Miami and further whitewashing the country’s egregious human rights record.
2025-02-19
Advocacy & Campaigns The AIMC must end its role in transnational repression
ALQST and the undersigned NGOs call on the Arab Interior Ministers’ Council (AIMC) to cease its facilitation of arbitrary extraditions of peaceful dissidents and across Arab League countries.
2025-02-17
Advocacy & Campaigns Joint letter to Secretary Rubio urgently calls on United States to help secure release of Ahmed Kamel
A coalition of 12 human rights organisations have sent a joint letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, urgently calling on the Trump administration to help secure the immediate release of Ahmed Kamel.
2025-01-30
Advocacy & Campaigns Online hacks and censorship taint UN Internet Governance Forum in Riyadh
Concerns over Saudi Arabia’s suitability to host the 2024 IGF were confirmed, when two panel sessions that broached human rights issues were hacked and the content briefly deleted from the IGF website.
2024-12-23
Advocacy & Campaigns Civil society demands action ahead of Internet Governance Forum
The undersigned NGOs urge the Saudi authorities to release people imprisoned for their online expression and foster transparency and accountability, ahead of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2024.
2024-12-13
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