Geneva, March 03, 2022, SPA -- President of the Human Rights Commission (HRC) Dr. Awwad bin Saleh Al-Awwad, confirmed that Saudi Arabia, within the framework of its ambitious vision, has witnessed more than (95) historical reforms in human rights based on its established values, and in compliance with its national and international commitments, noting that these reforms reflect the Kingdom's keenness to take all necessary steps to that would enhance and protect human rights. This came in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's speech delivered at the 49th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), which kicked off on Monday, February 28. Dr. Al-Awwad cited the initiative of HRH the Crown Prince, to protect children in the cyberspace, to confront cyber threats targeting children on the Internet, and the issuance of the national policy to prevent child labor. Highlighting the Kingdom's efforts to protect and promote the rights of the elderly, Dr. Al-Awwad called on the Human Rights Council to adopt an international convention on the rights of older persons along the lines of human rights conventions dealing with specific groups and to support the efforts taken in this aspect. He renewed the Kingdom's call to the international community to carry out its responsibilities towards the Iranian-backed terrorist Houthi militia's violations of the rights of the Yemeni people, and their continued firing of ballistic missiles and drones toward civilians and vital installations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and threatening international shipping corridors in the Red Sea. He also underlined the Kingdom's position on the Palestinian cause, which calls for achieving a just peace, which ensures the Palestinian people the right to establish their independent state, with East Jerusalem as its capital, as per the international legitimacy resolutions and the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative. He concluded by calling on the UNHRC to improve human rights in the world through constructive dialogue and to counter the practices of politicization and selectivity that seek to turn this Council into a platform for implementing ideological and political agendas, and legitimizing false allegations, and unreliable sources. --SPA 16:12 LOCAL TIME 13:12 GMT 0016 www.spa.gov.sa/w1700460