Category Archives: General

Bahrain NGOs Respond to Government High Level HRC Statement

March 2016 – Geneva, Switzerland – Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB),... more

NGOs Commemorate the Five-Year Anniversary of Bahrain’s Peaceful Uprising

Five years ago, hundreds of thousands of Bahrainis took to the streets to call for democratic reform... more

Bahrain: Hopes for Justice and Reform Fading Five Years since 2011 Uprising

Five years after a wave of protests demanding widespread reform rocked Bahrain, hopes for progress... more

Mapping Bahrain’s Human Rights Violations

On February 14, 2011, thousands of Bahrainis participated in a “Day of Rage” in Manama,... more

Bahrain: Ongoing Deterioration of Human Rights

Five years after the start of Bahrain’s popular uprising calling for political reforms and the... more

Champions for Justice: Victims of Government Reprisals

Since Bahrain’s pro-democracy uprising began in 2011, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain... more

BCHR Vice President S.Yousif Almuhafdah on the occasion of Human Rights Day

The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December... more

NIHR Report Fails to Address Root Causes of Human Rights Violations

The Bahrain National Institute for Human Rights (NIHR) issued its second annual report on 3 December 2015... more

Shattering the Facade: A Report on Bahrain's Implementation of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI) Four Years On

16 November 2015 – Washington, DC – The Bahraini government has only fully implemented two,... more

Letter from Reema Shallan, Wife of Sheikh Ali Salman

  The Figure of Dialogue and Tolerance Behind Bars, The Higher Criminal Court in Bahrain... more