“About 200 cases of child rape are reported annually from the Saudi capital,” said Dr. Hussein Bahashwan, an official of Riyadh’s health department. “Child rape is, of course, one of those horrible new crimes that Saudi society is facing,” Saleh Al-Khathlan, deputy chief of the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) in Riyadh, said on Thursday.
The suspension, however, may be revoked if the Kingdom negotiates and signs a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the protection of Indonesian workers and also agrees to set up a joint task force to resolve cases where employees have been abused.
The call for support was made by a senior Kosovar diplomat on the occasion of the formal opening of the country’s diplomatic mission here Thursday. Rexhep Boja, the newly appointed charge d’affaires, said “even two Gulf states, Oman and Kuwait, have not recognized Kosovo so far.” He said the Kosovo Embassy has started functioning from a hired apartment at the Diplomatic Quarter in Riyadh.
A large number of representatives from the ministries of education of ABEGS member states will attend the two-day event on the “Iftah Ya Simsim” project, sponsored by the GCC Joint Program Production Institution (GCC-JPPI) and SABIC.
“The REDF has waived loans of the citizens of different cities and villages, which come as a big relief for the kith and kin in the families,” said Hassan bin Mohammed Al-Attas, the fund’s acting director general, while giving details Saturday of REDF’s operations. “Those who died after Sept. 11, 2007 will be covered by the loan waiver scheme only if they had been paying the loans’ installments regularly.”