Britain will launch talks about a new free trade agreement with six bay countries including Saudi Arabia on Wednesday and the charity warns that they do not ignore human rights in the latest efforts to foster non-EU relations after Brexit.

Minister of Trade Anne-Marie Trevelyan will visit Riyadh to start a discussion with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which consists of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

In 2021 the total trade between Britain and GCC was worth 33.1 billion pounds ($ 40.35 billion), where 11 billion pounds in trade were with Saudi Arabia.

I am happy to open a new market for large and small British businesses, and support more than 10,000 SMEs (small and medium companies) that have exported to the region,” Trevelyan said in a statement.

This is the fourth Set of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that the British launched this year after India, Canada and Mexico, because London was seen to replace the continuity agreement achieved before leaving the European Union trade orbit with a new post-Brexit agreement.

Britain said an agreement with GCC could reduce or remove British food and beverage export rates to the region, worth 625 million pounds last year, and also benefited financial services.

While substantial bay oil and gas reserves will not be included in any agreement, manufacturing and supply chains for this sector will be negotiated.

The Ministry of Trade said the talks could help the diversified bay countries away from dependence on oil to other sectors, and would try to remove the tariffs of goods such as the British wind turbine section.

However, some charity bodies marked fears that any agreement would not come with requirements regarding human rights or gender equality. British trade agreements with Australia and New Zealand both have a chapter about gender equality.

In the Gulf countries, women face rooted discrimination, while Draconian’s restraint about freedom of speech and the ban on trade unions is common,” said Allan Hogarth, Head of the Government of Amnesty International Government Policy and Affairs.

The British Gulf Trading agreement that remains silent about this problem will deliberately ignore serious human rights violations.”