Author Archives: Media Team

Draft report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review*: Bahrain

Introduction The Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review, established in accordance with Human Rights... more

The United Nations grants consultative status to the Bahrain Center for Human Right

On Wednesday 10 December 2022, the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) approved the... more

130 human rights organizations appeal to the Pope of the Vatican to demand the release of prisoners of conscience in Bahrain

On the occasion of his upcoming visit to Bahrain, we wish on the Pope to... more

Report on Freedom of Assembly and of Association

1.              Executive Summary The state of the rights to peaceful assembly and association is dim... more

Bahrain: Death Sentences Follow Torture, Sham Trials: Court Records Show Pervasive Rights Violations

(Beirut, October 10, 2022) – Bahraini courts have convicted and sentenced defendants to death following... more

Joint Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council, Universal Periodic Review Working Group (Forty-first session) Kingdom of Bahrain

Submission by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) and RAFTO Foundation for Human Rights... more

Kingdom of Bahrain Joint Submission to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review 41st Session of the UPR Working Group

March 2022 Submitted by: Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) (ECOSOC Status)... more

Bahrain’s Withdrawal from the Human Rights Council

Bahrain’s withdrawal is one more nail in the coffin of its commitment to protecting human... more

Bahrain: As Universal Periodic Review and elections approach, NGOs call for prisoners of conscience to be released

At an event on 28 September 2022 during the United Nations Human Rights Council’s 51st... more

Open Prisons: A Modern Form of Penalty

In the past decade or so, many reports emerged on the poor situation of prisons... more