Category Archives: General
Solidarity statement with Maryam Al-Khawaja’s campaign to free her father in Bahrain and call for Gaza ceasefire
On 19 February 2024, Bahraini-Danish human rights campaigner Maryam Al-Khawaja announced publicly in a video... more
UN Cybercrime Convention must not become a tool to undermine international human rights standards
Signatories stress that the Convention should only move forward if it pursues a specific goal... more
Bahrain and Egypt’s National Human Rights Institutions do not comply with the Paris Principles
To: the Sub-Committee on Accreditation (SCA) of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions... more
Bahrain Center participates in a human rights consultation with the UN rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association
A human rights consultation was organized in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, attended by the United... more
Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General
The case of Mr. Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, a Danish-Bahrani human rights defender, was included in the... more
Bahrain: UN expert alarmed by health of human rights defenders in prison GENEVA (15 September 2023)
The deteriorating health conditions of three human rights defenders held in detention in Bahrain was... more
JOINT STATEMENT – THE OBSERVATORY / BAHRAIN CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS / GULF CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
JOINT STATEMENT – THE OBSERVATORY / BAHRAIN CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS / GULF BAHRAIN: Maryam... more
Violations in July and August reach 300, and arrests reach 22
The past months of July and August witnessed a series of human rights violations amounting... more
Comment by UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani on continued hunger strike in Bahrain prison
GENEVA (30 August 2023) – With a hunger strike by several hundred prisoners over conditions... more
Children Behind Bars
Children’s rights are fundamental to the principles of justice and humanity, as enshrined in international... more