Category Archives: HRD

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

Post-Pegasus: Protecting Human Rights Defenders in the 21st Century

On 29 October 2021, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) hosted a panel titled... more

Members of BCHR targeted by Pegasus spyware

Between June 2020 and February 2021, Bahrain surveilled human rights activists, dissidents, and members of... more

UN Experts’ Joint Communication to Bahrain Government on Tortured HRDs Sentenced to Life

On 3 May 2021, Mary Lawlor who is the Special Rapporteur on the situation of... more

UN expert alarmed by prolonged detention of human rights defenders in Bahrain

A UN expert called on Bahrain to immediately release three human rights defenders suffering long... more

Did I Really Grow into This Woman? Part 4 and final

By Asma Darwish, Head of Advocacy at Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), AAWE member... more

Did I Really Grow into This Woman? Part 3

By Asma Darwish, Head of Advocacy at Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), AAWE member... more

Did I Really Grow into This Woman? Part 2

By Asma Darwish, Head of Advocacy at Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), AAWE member... more

Did I Really Grow into This Woman? Part 1

By Asma Darwish, Head of Advocacy at Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), AAWE member... more

Press in Bahrain: Restricting the Word & Blocking Freedom

On World Press Freedom Day, Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) held a webinar addressing... more