Google urged to halt cloud-computing project in Saudi Arabia over human rights concerns

Despite concerns from some in the West about the kingdom's human rights record, Riot Games o.....»»

Employees are calling on management to end the project, citing human rights concerns......»»

NurPhoto via Getty Images Saudi Arabia says it will no longer impose the death penalty on individuals who committed crimes when they were minors. Last week, the country also banned flogging as a potential punishment, opting to im.....»»

Al Arabiya English Paris Hilton spoke about her first visit to Saudi Arabia during an interview at a conference in the United .....»»

Aly Song/Reuters Google's former head of international relations, Ross LaJeunesse, says he was effectively pushed out last April after 11 years with the company after raising human rights concerns. LaJeunesse tol.....»»

Multiple influencers and celebrities sparked criticism for attending a music festival in Saudi Arabia despite the country's lengthy record of human-rights abuses. Some of the most notab.....»»

AP Photo/Francois Mori Mohammed bin Salman is the 34-year-old crown prince of Saudi Arabia. He controls part of the royal family's vast wealth, which is .....»»

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Submitted by Carey Welder of AntiMedia Saudi Arabia, the United States’ main ally in the Middle East, has executed 48 people so far this year, half of them over nonviolent drug charges, Human Rights Watch reported this week.....»»

Hundreds of AI experts and rights campaigners have called on Google to cease work on the program......»»

Raising concerns over human and civil rights. Civil rights groups are outraged about Amazon’s.....»»

It's done nothing to stop women being denied the smallest of freedoms, yet Saudi Arabia has served on the UN Human Rights Council for over a decade......»»

Two years after Russia was kicked out of the UN Human Rights Council, while that paragon of humanitarian virtue Saudi Arabia was reelected, the WaPo reports that the Trump administration is set to wit.....»»

Authorities have detained two women’s rights activists, human-rights groups said, broadening a campaign of arrests that has drawn international criticism and tainted the kingdom’s top-down reforms agenda......»»

A bipartisan group says a reported project "risks making Google complicit in human rights abuses." A bipartisan group of six U.S. Senators, including Florida Republi.....»»

Getty Images/Business Insider Saudi Arabia has expelled Canada's ambassador and frozen all new trade and investment with Ottawa over an escalating dispute centered on jailed human rights activists. The feud appears to .....»»

The Saudi move on Monday came after the Canadian embassy in Riyadh said Canada was “gravely concerned” over a new wave of arrests of human-rights campaigners in the kingdom......»»

Saudi Arabia ‘Freezes Out’ Canada on Trade, Recalls Ambassador Saudi Arabia suspends new trade and investment with Canada after that country’s foreign ministry urged Riyadh to release arrested civil rights activists, it said in a state.....»»

Saudi Arabia will suspend new trade and investment with Canada after that country's foreign ministry urged Riyadh to release arrested civil rights activists. Emily Wither reports......»»

AP Photo/Karim Kadim Saudi Arabia's national airline Saudia suspended flights to and from Toronto in an escalating feud with.....»»