…and in perhaps the one real positive development in the region, advances on women’s rights. ~ @sarahleah1 #Rights2019
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What MBS didn’t tell us is that he decided that he could only make reforms in the absence of all criticism or feedback from Saudi society, and he dramatically escalated the level of repression in order to curb all dissent. ~
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He embarked on an arrest campaign of well-known independent clerics, activists, and academics, as well as senior princes and leading businessmen, and the country’s leading women’s rights activists...
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Not only were they arrested and many held without charge, there are credible allegations that authorities also mistreated them in detention. ~
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Given the level of repression, we should expect that MBS has at least carried out his reform program, but on women’s rights there has been little progress – the guardianship system is still in place. ~
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Even his economic reforms have not gone to plan. The IPO of ARAMCO is stalled, and he hasn’t been able to generate the level of international investment needed to transform the economy. ~
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Many international investors are now scared away from Saudi Arabia because of MBS’s repression. ~
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Yemen: The World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis -
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- 400,000 children under 5 suffering severe acute malnutrition in Yemen. - 2 million displaced, half of them kids. - Up to half the population at risk of starvation if something doesn’t change.
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- More than 2/3rds, more than 20 million, reliant on some form of aid. - Even veteran humanitarian workers find the depths and expanse of human suffering in Yemen difficult to fathom.
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There are incredible people in Yemen pushing for justice, peace, & change. The question is, when will states choose to stand beside them, rather than continue to arm those fighting with more bombs & bullets? ~
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Now in London,
@AhmedBenchemsi describing "the assembly line of torture" in Egypt...#Rights2019https://www.facebook.com/HumanRightsWatch/videos/375207776640125/?notif_id=1548155122909843¬if_t=live_video_explicit …Näytä tämä ketju -
In today’s Egypt, it is forbidden to protest in the street—by law. Hundreds have been jailed because they protested the anti-protest law... Thousands have been disappeared, tortured, by the National Security Agency ~
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Now in London,
@Rothna_Begum will describe some good news of the past year: Women’s rights are making progress....#Rights2019Näytä tämä ketju -
The “marry my rapist” laws are being repealed in one country after the other, more laws on violence against women are being adopted, and domestic workers (mainly females) have new protections in more Arab countries… ~
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