Saudi Arabia is hosting this year’s G20 summit. It’s the event that brings together leaders from all over the globe to discuss economic, socioeconomic and development issues. And as The World’s Shirin Jaafari tells host Marco Werman, activists are calling for a boycott of the summit because of what they call Saudi Arabia’s abysmal human rights record.
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