From Arab News

Saudi Arabia’s human rights body, we learn, is preparing its first official report to be presented to the UN. As we wait to see what the report includes, newspapers have published a comment by the deputy head of the Human Rights Commission (HRC) that makes one wonder if the report will be candid enough. As Okaz newspaper published on Monday, the deputy said that those who claim that there is discrimination in the Kingdom between men and women are simply “ignorant people.” The Kingdom, he pointed out, has signed the UN treaty against discrimination on the basis of sex. What is more, the country is following the Shariah that, he said, guarantees women their full rights.