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The Washington Post says it is important for Saudi Arabia to revise its policy on Iraq, too.
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Torture and other ill-treatment in detention are widespread, it says - an allegation Saudi Arabia has always denied.
BBC: Saudi Arabia accused of repression after Arab Spring
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The BBC's world affairs correspondent Emily Buchanan says it is an extraordinary development for women in Saudi Arabia, who are not allowed to drive, or to leave the country unaccompanied.
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As Bill Farren-Price of PPI, a consultancy, points out, it is more informative to watch what Saudi Arabia does than what OPEC says.
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Peter Mandelson, the EU trade commissioner, says Saudi Arabia's government could be hauled before the World Trade Organisation if it is thought to be encouraging the boycott of Danish goods.
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Turning to Saudi Arabia - a key oil supplier and another partner in the war on terror - it says there have been some gains, such as a conference on women's rights and creation of the first formal human rights group, but concludes: "The record of human rights abuses and violations... still far exceeds the advances".
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