{"id":10891,"date":"2021-06-14T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reprieve.org\/us\/2021\/06\/28\/saudi-arabia-upr\/"},"modified":"2021-06-28T14:59:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T14:59:43","slug":"saudi-arabia-upr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reprieve.org\/us\/2021\/06\/14\/saudi-arabia-upr\/","title":{"rendered":"Halfway there and Saudi Arabia is still falling short: Our midterm report on Saudi Arabia\u2019s UPR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The last time Saudi Arabia’s human rights record was questioned by fellow United Nations (UN) members in the Universal Period Review (UPR) was in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It received a grand total of 258 recommendations from other countries on how it could improve respect for human rights. Saudi Arabia accepted 199 of the 258 recommendations that came out of the UPR process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All countries go through the UPR process at the UN every six years. It’s an opportunity for other countries to examine one nation’s human rights records – and offer recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saudi Arabia is halfway through its current six-year UPR cycle. To mark the milestone, we investigated how Saudi Arabia is performing against the recommendations it accepted in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our report, produced with the European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights (ESOHR), shows that Saudi Arabia has made little to no progress in implementing any of 199 recommendations it accepted in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the recommendations it accepted include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n