essential for women to have a legal guardian who can restrict their travel groups like human rights watch and amnesty international have expressed concerns about google and apple's role in providing this app human rights watch told insider quote apple and google have rules against apps that facilitate threats and harassment apps like this one can facilitate human rights abuses including discrimination against women amnesty international told insider that the as some as well words are quote another example of how the saudi arabian government has produced tools to limit women's freedoms yasmeen mohamed an ex a muslim activist says apple and google are facilitating the most archaic massage what irony and the west these technologies are you. to improve lives and then saudi arabia there used to inforce gender apartheid rights groups are calling on apple land google to accept the app is being used to harm women in saudi arabia they are demanding both at tech giants to stop this from happening at this time neither apple nor google have comment reporting in the newsroom ashley banks are to. after twenty five feet underwat

and what many human rights groups including human rights watch amnesty and the international federation for human rights have documented. the use of french weapons in a precinct and crushing egyptian protesters protests in egypt and also the transfer of spying technology from france to egypt that has been used to spy on egyptian people so french but is not my call and i think felt under pressure to show more support to the egyptian rights group. saying how grangemouth sorry to interrupt you how seriously do you take this sort of legal action i'm sure you and the other rights groups would think it's all you know completely unwarranted but the system in egypt doesn't walk around with this sort of thing either. we we take it very seriously are the we have seen these kinds of companies filed by lawyers who are very hyper nationalist and pro-government and egyptian law unfortunately permits this kind of lawsuits filled by hand by lawyers who have nothing at stake at actually but they just lie these. over pro that kids ations actually laughable of harming national to get the and spreading fal

and live in islamabad now rights activists say the three countries of the crown prince's eliciting have questionable questionable records on human rights and pakistan his first stop amnesty international and human rights watch say in full service appearances a widespread to as the government is increasingly cracking down on its critics mohamed then moves to india in the lead up to elections there hindu nationalism has led to increased violence un experts have called for investigations into extra judicial killings while the government recently raided foreign charities and rights groups and china has been criticized for placing up to a million weak and muslims and re-education camps and detaining hundreds of human rights lawyers and activists well let's get more on the visit we're joined by is often just fun he's a professor of politics. and international relations at. university and he's joining us also live from islamabad very good to have you with us on al-jazeera we'll start with the well prepared for mahama been some on what you make of it you know given the promises that we heard from enron khan especially on the campaign trail on being a very different kind of leader could really stand up for human rig

three countries saudi crown prince will be visiting and in particular the human rights record in pakistan amnesty international and human rights watch say in forces appearances are widespread and the government is increasingly cracking down on critics had been summoned then moved to india in the lead up to elections hindu nationalism has led to increased violence un experts have called for investigations into extra judicial killings while the government recently raided foreign charities and white schools and then china has been criticised for placing up to one million wiggle muslims in camps and detaining hundreds of human rights lawyers and activists sami handi is editor in chief of international interest which is a current affairs magazine he says the crown prince's visit is a desperate attempt to gain some political leverage over u.s. president donald trump. donald trump deeply resents the opec institution which is technically run by the saudis and in part by the russians and indeed there is a law being passed now by congress that is being that is going to allow the u.s. to prosecute opec states if they try to play with the price

and we have a reporting mechanism for that. >> but this report neither observe or been complicit in any human or degrading treatment. the associated press, human rights watch amnesty international and united nations all conducted their own investigations and came to a very different conclusion. they determined that our pa partners oversaw a network of detention centers that regularly engaged in torture and other abuse. now does dod find these independent investigations credible? >> we certainly take all of these independent investigations seriously. i think what i'm saying to you is we have no observations of our own from from our people that have actually seen this. >> has dod reached any conclusions about whether or not our partners are engaging in detainee abuse when dod personnel are not present? >> i have not reached any kind of conclusion that they are activi conducting these activities. certainly in our interaction with all our partners in this conflict and across the region, we continue now to emphasize the obligations under the law of armed conflict and the proper detention and treatment of detainees across the board. >> i appreciate you walking me through the assessme

and i am in agreement with that assessment. >> okay. the associated press human rights watch, amnesty international and the united nations, all four, have all conducted their own investigations and come to a very different conclusion. they determined that our emirati partners oversaw a network of detention centers that regularly engaged in torture and abuse. general thomas, do you find these independent investigations credible? >> again, senator, i monitored general votel's answer to the same question and you'll probably hear consistency. every one of those allegations is taken with the utmost, you know, interest in terms of pouring into them and during if they're factual and we have and, in fact, i'm not aware of any outliers. if we observe violation of the law of armed conflict it is a break context standard along our force to address it specifically and/or to break contact with those partner forces. again, i would reinforce how general votel answered it. it's a high standard. >> i appreciate that. and general votel said that exactly that, that -- he was careful about what he said. he said -- i asked him if he reached conclusions abou

and reports from the people that they have on the ground. general thomas, is that your understanding as well?>> i am in agreement with that assessment. >> so the associated press human rights watch amnesty international and the united nations, all four have all conducted their own investigations and come to a very different conclusion. they determined that our partners oversaw a network of detention centers that regularly engaged in torture and abuse. general thomas, do you find these independent investigations credible? >> again, senator, i monitor the interesting question and you probably hear some consistency. every one of those allegations is taken with the utmost interest into pouring into them and determining if they are factual and in fact i'm not aware of any outliers. if we observe violation of law of armed conflict, it is a great standard among them were forced to address it specifically or to break contact with those part of forces so again i would reinforce how the other general answered, it is a high standard. >> i appreciate that. general barthel said exactly that he was very careful about what he said, i asked him if he had reached any conclusions about whether or not our partners are

and you're watching also international live from last year with nina welcome to the program a leading global human rights group is being used by its own staff of bullying discrimination and the abuse of power amnesty international as one of the world's oldest humanitarian. groups bitter a view of its workplace practices has revealed a toxic culture. there most of our oppressive managers belittling staff in meetings deliberately excluding certain staff from reporting or making demeaning menacing comments like yours or you should quit if you seen this position your life will be a misery the wellbeing review was launched off to to amnesty employees committed suicide within six weeks of each of the last year roslyn mcgregor worked as an intern and is said to have developed acute anxiety during her time with the humanitarian group research i got on the move to was at amnesty for more than thirty years and then the organization for pressures that was before taking his own life with more on the review his. were facing a situation where this world renowned human rights organization amnesty international is in the headlines for all the wrong reasons following revelations about a quote talk saying work cult

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and google basically concede to them but certainly i think it's important to continue the international pressure to use their organizations like the at night midnight of nations human rights watch amnesty international those are civil society organizations of course to really put pressure on the saudi government because it's frankly just unacceptable in twenty one thousand to have these laws in place best nominee from the university of waterloo and canada thank you for your time. thank you unemployment and economic inequality were among the biggest factors behind rounds as amik revolution and one nine hundred seventy nine when millions of people brought down a corrupt monarchy forty as they said though many say they're still yet to see the prosperity they were promised a reports from tehran the power of protest and armed rebellion ayatollah ruhollah khomeini was able to call upon helped him take control of iran in eleven days but consolidating the gains of the one nine hundred seventy nine islamic revolution would take years the new government struggle to suppress insurrections of its own and the economy all but collapsed revolutionaries have been jockeying for political position ever

international united nations criminal investigation by the secretary-general. we held a press conference at the u.n., with human rights watch, reporters without borders, and amnesty, calling for this. we have met with the secretary- general's office and with several member states. we understand turkey has expressed its openness to that . so, we would like to see the u.n. secretary-general monts their own investigation. i think the u.n. special repertoire on extrajudicial killing and her initial fact- finding mission to turkey indicates again that there is very significant evidence that the crown prince was involved, and so that furthers the call for an international criminal investigation, so i don't think it's an either/or. it's a both. . >> right here with the type. >> e >> thank you, very much. i represent the free house independent news agency. i appreciate you calling on me. i think we should keep in mind in the situation, we had a congressional sanction amendment. that was actually calling everyone, every single person involved in his case could be sanctioned. i think that was a strong wind which of the government quite smartly. they are serious. they're go