Saudi Arabia

Slum dwellers live in fear of eviction in Saudi Arabia

Published in Monday November 12th, 2012 In In the media

November 12, 2012 Close to Makkah’s Grand Mosque and the glitzy 5-star hotels surrounding it lie slums whose mostly immigrant dwellers fear they will be evicted to make way for new high rises and malls. In one such slum on Jabal (mount) Omar, humans, cats, lizards, and mosquitoes co-exist among piles of garbage, with sewage […]

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Saudi Arabia plans new city for women workers only

Published in Monday August 13th, 2012 In In the media

August 12, 2012 A women-only industrial city dedicated to female workers is to be constructed in Saudi Arabia to provide a working environment that is in line with the kingdom’s strict customs. The city, to be built in the Eastern Province city of Hofuf, is set to be the first of several planned for the Gulf […]

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Saudi Arabia’s statement on the report “Women and Adequate Housing”

Published in Wednesday March 14th, 2012

On March 6th, 2012, the UN special rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, Raquel Rolnik, presented at the 19th regular session of the UN Human Rights Council, in Geneva, the reports concerning her 2011 missions to Argentina and Algeria, as well as her thematic report on women and their right to adequate housing. After this […]