Category Archives: Discrimination

BCHR Releases Report On Family Law in Bahrain

  Link to the full report.   Bahrain is a signatory of the 1979 U.N.... more

BCHR Releases Report on Discrimination Against Women in Bahraini Society and Legislation

  Link to the full report.   Since the King of Bahrain assumed the throne... more

Bahrain: The Authority Imposes Restrictions on Religious Freedoms and Continues to Wipe Out the Cultural and Historical Heritage

Barbaghi Mosque, Destroyed by the Authority in April 2011 and Intends to Change its Historical... more

Updates: Bahrain: Authorities Promoting Sectarian Tensions by Targeting Shia Muslims During Ashoura

  The Bahrain Center for Human Rights and the Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights... more

Bahrain: Security Forces Place Cement Blocks and Barbed Wire around Villages Ahead of “Tamarrod”

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) is gravely concerned in regards to the ongoing... more

Bahrain: Sectarian Discourse is Still Ongoing in the Official Media

  Impunity for Pro-Regime Figures Calling for Violence   The Bahrain Center for Human Rights... more

Bahrain: Light-Speed Amendments Made to Implement Anti-Freedoms Recommendations

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights is gravely concerned in regards to the Bahraini authorities’... more

Bahrain: In Complete Disregard to Religious Freedom, Authorities Decide to Turn Site of demolished Historical Mosque into a Park

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses its grave concern regarding the authorities continued and... more

Bahrain: Continued Attacks on the Right to Education: Discrimination in Scholarship Distribution

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses concern regarding the continued violation of the right... more

US Department of State: International Religious Freedom Report for 2012 – Bahrain

The annual Report to Congress on International Religious Freedom – the International Religious Freedom Report... more