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URL:https://londoncaat.org.uk/events/beyond-the-rhetoric-of-reform-saudi-a
 rabia-and-the-uk/
SUMMARY:Beyond the Rhetoric of Reform: Saudi Arabia and the UK
DESCRIPTION:Saudi authorities hope the G20 Summit this November will be an 
 opportunity to promote themselves as agents of modernisation and reform\, 
 and shore up international support for their rule.\n\n\nYet\, as they talk
  of “Empowering People” and creating “the conditions in which all pe
 ople can live\, work and thrive”\, these conditions are denied to their 
 own people\, and those who demand them face persecution\, torture and impr
 isonment. In Yemen\, bombing by the Saudi-led coalition has killed thousan
 ds and unleashed a humanitarian catastrophe.\nJoin us as we look beyond th
 e rhetoric of reform and investigate the UK’s complicity in these abuses
 .\n\n\nCAAT will be shining a spotlight on human rights challenges in Saud
 i Arabia and the UK’s complicity in these abuses\; Saudi Arabia’s role
  in the Yemen war and the scandal of continuing UK arms sales\; and celebr
 ating the activists speaking out for change.\n\n\nGet a free ticket here.\
 n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n• Osamah Al-Fakih\, Media\, Communications and Advoca
 cy Manager with Mwatana for Human rights\nOsamah Alfakih is the director o
 f media\, communications and advocacy at the Yemeni NGO\, Mwatana for Huma
 n Rights\, and the former director of the research unit in the same organi
 zation. Mwatana was recently awarded the Baldwin Medal of Liberty Award by
  Human Rights First.\n\n\n• Safa Al-Ahmad\, Journalist and filmmaker\, A
 cting Director of ALQST\nSafa Al-Ahmad is a Saudi Arabian journalist and f
 ilmmaker. She has directed documentaries for PBS and the BBC focusing on u
 prisings in the Middle East.\nHer 2014 documentary\, “Saudi’s Secret U
 prising"\, about a largely unreported mass uprising in Saudi Arabia’s Ea
 stern Province (produced for the BBC) was instrumental in bringing interna
 tional attention to the large-scale violence meted out to peaceful demonst
 rators. On November 19\, 2019\, she was awarded the Wallenberg Medal at th
 e University of Michigan.\n\n\n• David Wearing\, academic\, writer\, and
  expert on the UK’s relationship with Gulf states\nDr. David Wearing is 
 a lecturer in international relations at the University of Southampton\, a
 nd a specialist in UK relations with Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Arab monarc
 hies. He is the author of 'AngloArabia: Why Gulf Wealth Matters To Britain
 '\, an overview of the United Kingdom's political and economic relationshi
 p with the Gulf Cooperation Council states\, and in particular Saudi Arabi
 a.\n\n\nThe discussion will be chaired by Sarah Waldron\, Public Campaigns
  Co-ordinator at CAAT.
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