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 Biden must address Saudi repression during visit

As US President Joe Biden visits Saudi Arabia on 15-16 July, he must urgently address the unrelenting repression going on there, and do nothing that helps to rehabilitate the pariah kingdom’s de-facto ruler.

2022-07-14

Advocacy & Campaigns Latest deal with PR firm shows Riyadh again putting image ahead of substance over human rights

ALQST learned of a new contract for PR company Qorvis Communications to provide a Saudi university with consultancy and PR services relating to Saudi Arabia’s official HRC and human trafficking issues.

2022-07-08

Advocacy & Campaigns Civil society organisations urge UN member states to take Council action on Saudi Arabia in view of continued serious human rights abuses

The undersigned civil society organisations, urge states to support joint action at the ongoing UN Human Rights Council session to hold Saudi Arabia to its international human rights obligations.

2022-06-15

Advocacy & Campaigns Free social media activist Dr. Lina Alsharif

The undersigned human rights organisations call on the Saudi authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Dr. Lina Alsharif, who has been arbitrarily detained in Saudi Arabia for over a year.

2022-06-06

Advocacy & Campaigns Rights groups call for the release of Waleed Abu al-Khair on the eighth anniversary of his arrest

15 April marks the eighth anniversary of the arrest of Saudi human rights defender Waleed Abu al-Khair, who is serving a 15-year prison sentence on charges related to his legitimate human rights activities.

2022-04-15

Advocacy & Campaigns ALQST announces new campaign highlighting the diversity of Saudi human rights victims

Today, 28 March 2022, ALQST launches a new campaign in support of the many activists and ordinary citizens detained and silenced in Saudi Arabia.

2022-03-29

Advocacy & Campaigns ALQST and partners highlight Saudi authorities’ disturbing pattern of abuses in joint statement at the UN Human Rights Council

On 22 March 2022, during the UN Human Rights Council (HRC)’s 49th Regular Session, ALQST, International Service for Human Rights and the Gulf Centre for Human Rights delivered a joint oral statement.

2022-03-23

Advocacy & Campaigns MPs call on UK government to condemn mass executions in Saudi Arabia as Boris Johnson visits

On 14 March 2022, Conservative MP Crispin Blunt tabled an urgent question in the British parliament asking the government to make a statement on the executions of 81 individuals in Saudi Arabia on 12 March.

2022-03-18

Advocacy & Campaigns ALQST says ‘no’ to sportswashing

ALQST calls on the four football clubs competing now in Riyadh in the Spanish Super Cup to take a stand on the human rights situation in Saudi Arabia.

2022-01-14

Advocacy & Campaigns Over 120 European parliamentarians sign statement in support of Saudi women human rights defenders

Over 120 European parliamentarians from national and EU parliaments have signed a joint statement raising awareness of the ongoing persecution of Saudi women human rights defenders (WHRDs).

2021-11-29

Advocacy & Campaigns ALQST and partners highlight Saudi authorities’ systematic abuses in joint statements at UN Human Rights Council

At the UN Human Rights Council’s 48th Regular Session this month, ALQST and partner NGOs delivered three oral statements addressing human rights violations in Saudi Arabia.

2021-10-07

Advocacy & Campaigns Mid-term report shows Saudi authorities failing to reform, ignoring 2018 UPR recommendations

An NGO report on Saudi Arabia’s progress mid-way through its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) cycle reveals a shocking lack of action from the Saudi authorities.

2021-10-05

Advocacy & Campaigns Human rights groups say No to NSO Group’s participation in London security expo

Following pressure from human rights organisations, Israeli technology company NSO Group will no longer be permitted to exhibit its Pegasus software at the International Security Expo.

2021-09-28

Advocacy & Campaigns The Pegasus Project: MENA Surveillance Coalition demands an end to the sale of surveillance technology to the region’s autocratic governments

We, the undersigned human rights organizations, call for an immediate halt to the use, sale and transfer of surveillance technology to autocratic oppressive governments across MENA.

2021-07-30

Advocacy & Campaigns European Parliament passes resolution calling on EU member states to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for human rights abuses

On Thursday, 8 July 2021, the European Parliament passed a resolution condemning human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia.

2021-07-09

Advocacy & Campaigns Google should halt plans to establish Cloud Region in Saudi Arabia

The undersigned human rights and digital rights organisations urge Google to immediately halt its plan to establish a new Google Cloud region in Saudi Arabia.

2021-05-27