Rep. Ilhan Omar, other lawmakers seek US boycott of G20 summit in Saudi Arabia - Fox News

from the G20 summit next month in Saudi Arabia unless the kingdom promises reforms on a long list of human rights abuses.

to withdraw from the G20 summit in Saudi Arabia next month unless the kingdom makes dramatic changes to human rights abuses and frees women's rights activists from prison. .

But the human rights abuses have come front and center as a growing list of leaders are snubbing the engagement with Saudi Arabia.

The mayors of London, Paris, New York and Los Angeles all boycotted the U20 urban summit ahead of the G20 over human rights concerns.

And this fall, Saudi Arabia failed to get a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council. .

should not participate unless Saudi Arabia’s monarchy ends "its record of human rights violations, reckless foreign policy, and environmental destruction."

Among the specific demands: releasing human rights and women activists from prison, providing true accountability for Khashoggi's murder, ending its war in Yemen, allowing journalists to report freely and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by state-owned Saudi Aramco, a major fossil fuel producer

The lawmakers raised special concerns for women in Saudi Arabia and have called for abolishing the male guardianship system, repealing laws that give husbands absolute control over wives and making clear that marital rape is a crime