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Groups Call for Unconditional Release of Saudi Activist, Salma al-Shehab, After Sentence Reduction

January 16, 2025

Palestinians inspect damage at the site of an Israeli strike on a house amid the Israel-Hamas conflict at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on December 13, 2024. (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

DAWN Statement on Ceasefire in Gaza: Accountability, Reparations, and the Path to Justice

January 15, 2025

--PHOTO TAKEN DURING A CONTROLLED TOUR AND SUBSEQUENTLY EDITED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE ISRAELI MILITARY-- This picture taken during a media tour organised by the Israeli military on January 27, 2024, shows Israeli soldiers patrolling an area in Gaza's main southern city of Khan Yunis, amid continuing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Photo by Nicolas GARCIA / AFP)

Democracy In Exile

Could Israel's 'Immoral Witnesses' in Gaza Unwittingly Help End the IDF's Impunity?

January 14, 2025

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Groups Call for Unconditional Release of Saudi Activist, Salma al-Shehab, After Sentence Reduction

January 16, 2025

Saudi Arabia Must Not Extradite Peaceful Protester to Egypt, Where He Would Face Torture

December 6, 2024

NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 19: Paul Keary, COO of Teneo Holdings attends the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative Gala at Powerhouse at The American Museum of Natural History on November 19, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Laura Cavanaugh/Getty Images)

U.S. Consulting Firm Teneo Whitewashing Saudi Human Rights Record, Misleading Public, Contributing to Abuses

November 13, 2024

Supporters of the Syria Solidarity Campaign hold placards as they protest opposite 10 Downing Street in central London on December 28, 2024, calling on the UK government uphold its humanitarian obligations and end the suspension of asylum applications for Syrians. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

Democracy In Exile

Europe's Rightward Turn on Migration Is a Backlash Against Human Rights Themselves

January 16, 2025

--PHOTO TAKEN DURING A CONTROLLED TOUR AND SUBSEQUENTLY EDITED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE ISRAELI MILITARY-- This picture taken during a media tour organised by the Israeli military on January 27, 2024, shows Israeli soldiers patrolling an area in Gaza's main southern city of Khan Yunis, amid continuing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Photo by Nicolas GARCIA / AFP)

Democracy In Exile

Could Israel's 'Immoral Witnesses' in Gaza Unwittingly Help End the IDF's Impunity?

January 14, 2025

Democracy In Exile

Assad's Fall in Syria Confounds the UAE's Staunchly Anti-Islamist Agenda

January 9, 2025

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Groups Call for Unconditional Release of Saudi Activist, Salma al-Shehab, After Sentence Reduction

January 16, 2025

Supporters of the Syria Solidarity Campaign hold placards as they protest opposite 10 Downing Street in central London on December 28, 2024, calling on the UK government uphold its humanitarian obligations and end the suspension of asylum applications for Syrians. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP)

Democracy In Exile

Europe's Rightward Turn on Migration Is a Backlash Against Human Rights Themselves

January 16, 2025

Palestinians inspect damage at the site of an Israeli strike on a house amid the Israel-Hamas conflict at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on December 13, 2024. (Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

DAWN Statement on Ceasefire in Gaza: Accountability, Reparations, and the Path to Justice

January 15, 2025

Tag: Yemen

JAZAN, SAUDI ARABIA--APRIL 10, 2105--At the border crossing of the Saudi Arabia-Yemen border, near the town of Jazan, members of the Saudi Arabia Border Police stand guard as a few people cross the border in and out of Yemen. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)

Democracy In Exile

From Mass Expulsion to Alleged Torture: How Saudi Arabia Is Targeting Yemeni Migrants

December 6, 2021

Yemeni men inspect the damages at a factory allegedly targeted by Saudi-led coalition's airstrikes in the Red Sea town of Hodeidah on July 27, 2018. (Photo by ABDO HYDER / AFP) (Photo credit should read ABDO HYDER/AFP via Getty Images)

Congress Must Block $650M US-Saudi Arms Sale

November 29, 2021

Democracy In Exile

Yemen's War Has Stoked New Divisions That Won't Fade With a Peace Deal

Democracy In Exile

From Diatribes to Dialogue: Why Iran and Saudi Arabia Are Talking

SANA’A, YEMEN – JUNE 25: People search for survivors under rubble of a house after it was destroyed by an airstrike of the Saudi-led coalition, that killed eight members of one family, and injured 15 others on June 25, 2018 in Amran province north Sana’a, Yemen. (Photo by Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images)

Democracy In Exile

Lasting Peace for Saudi in Yemen Requires a Public Apology and Reparations

US President Joe Biden leaves after speaking about the March jobs report in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 2, 2021. - The US economy regained a massive 916,000 jobs in March, the biggest increase since August, with nearly a third of the increase in the hard-hit leisure and hospitality sector, the Labor Department reported on April 2, 2021. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

National Coalition Calls for an End to Saudi Blockade of Yemen

Sharjar, UAE, May 2006: A portrait of a migrant labourer in an area close to Dubai where he is installing a well for ongoing construction. He is one of over a million construction workers working in Dubai. These sites are filled with construction labourers in Dubai live in labour camps.The camps are often over 2 hours away and the workers have just finished a 12 hour shift. The majority of labourers come to Dubai from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. These workers operate in extreme temperatures in the desert climate, the majority earning under $200 a month. Many have to spend a third of that sum on food provided at the camps as part of their contract. Most sign recruitment contracts in their own countries which take them into debt for many years. Their passports are held by their employers once they reach the UAE and if the company owners abscond the workers are often abandoned without their documents or due payment. Over two thirds of the Dubai population is migrant labour with 1.1 million working in construction. Dubai is currently second only to Shanghai in terms of the scale of construction underway on a 24 hour basis. All this is woefully underscrutinised by the Ministry of Labour, there are currently only 80 government inspectors for over 200 000 construction companies. Recently there have been rumblings of discontent from the workers, with strikes at numerous sites over the non-payment of wages and harsh working conditions. In 2005, according to Human Rights Watch, there were 84 suicides by construction workers in Dubai. Photo by Brent Stirton/Getty Images.

Democracy In Exile

The UAE: Perpetuating an Unsustainable Pecking Order

Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir (L) speaks with UAE's Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (C) as Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa (R) looks on following a meeting with foreign ministers and military officials from the Saudi-led coalition, in Riyadh on October 29, 2017.
Saudi Arabia on Sunday accused Iran of blocking peace efforts in Yemen, slamming its political archrival over support for the Yemeni rebels Riyadh is fighting against. / AFP PHOTO / FAYEZ NURELDINE (Photo credit should read FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP via Getty Images)

Democracy In Exile

The UAE's Tactical Withdrawal from a Strategic Engagement in Yemen

Yemeni children demonstrate on the occasion of the UN's Universal Children's Day on November 20, 2017 in front of the UN offices in the capital Sanaa, as they protest against the air strikes carried out by the Saudi-led coalition. / AFP PHOTO / Mohammed HUWAIS (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Dawn’s Advocacy

DAWN Endorses Congressional Letter Demanding Transparency on Arming Yemen War

February 26, 2021

Houthi

Democracy In Exile

Why the US is wrong to designate the Houthis as 'terrorists'

January 24, 2021

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