Category Archives: Reports

U.S Department of State Issues its 2021 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Bahrain

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Bahrain is a hereditary monarchy. King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa is the... more

Bahrain 2021: Stagnation & No Signs of Change – Annual report

The human rights situation has not improved during 2021. The authorities are still intolerant to... more

Cosmetic Reforms: Assessing Bahrain’s Implementation of the BICI Recommendations Ten Years Later

23 November 2021 marks the tenth anniversary of the King’s adoption of the recommendations of... more

Defective and Deficient: A Review of Bahrain’s National Human Rights Bodies

In the aftermath of the Bahraini uprising in 2011, the King of Bahrain ordered the... more

Bahrain: Torture is the Policy and Impunity is the Norm

A Report by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) produced in cooperation with the... more

The Female Workforce in Bahrain: Underrepresentation, Discrimination, and Inadequate Reforms

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) issues a new report on the conditions of... more

Alternative Penal Code: Between the Important Theory and Practice in Bahrain.

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) is issuing a new report, in both Arabic... more

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights issues a report entitled “Torture Survivors”

“Torture is a vicious attempt to break a person’s will”, as the United Nations Secretary-General... more

Torture in Bahrain: a State Behaviour and Systematic Policy

Marking the UN Intl. Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the Bahrain Center for... more

Suppressing Dissent and Sustaining Impunity – Torture in Bahrain 2015-2016

In light of Bahrain’s upcoming review by the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT), the Bahrain... more