 ALQST described the online trading as "slavery 2.0".In October 2018, ALQST joined 160 other civil society organisations in calling for an independent international investigation into the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi and for Saudi Arabia to be suspended from the United Nations Human Rights Council.In its second annual conference in December 2018, ALQST released a report summarising the human rights situation during the reign of King Salman.