Category Archives: General

GDN: Bahrain to ratify UN mines treaty

By RASHA AL QAHTANI Published: 2 November 2007 BAHRAIN will soon ratify a United Nations... more

GDN: Expats' health testing rapped

By GEOFFREY BEW Published: 30 October 2007 A SYSTEM designed to detect illness among expatriates... more

BCHR ALERT: Journalist and editor fined in defamation case

30 October 2007 SOURCE: Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), Manama (BCHR/IFEX) - On 28... more

GDN: Shot sailors are named

Published: 25th October 2007 MANAMA: Two US servicewomen shot dead in their barracks in Juffair... more

AFP: Trial of Al-Qaeda suspects opens in Bahrain

Trial of Al-Qaeda suspects opens in Bahrain Tue Oct 23, 1:44 PM ET The trial... more

Bahrain: ARTICLE 19 calls for the ban on women's rights activist Ghada Jamsheer to be lifted

PRESS RELEASE For immediate release - 22 October 2007 Bahrain : ARTICLE 19 calls for... more

GDN:New hope for child abuse victims

By Rebecca Torr Published: 20th October 2007 VICTIMS of child abuse are being helped to... more

IFEX ALERT : Women's rights defender forbidden from appearing in media

IFEX - News from the international freedom of expression community _______________________________________________________________ ALERT - BAHRAIN 16... more

BCHR: Collective punishment to citizens planned a trip to Um-Ne'ssan island

BCHR expresses its deep concerns about the reaction and ill-treatment carried out by the Bahraini... more

GDN: Bahrainis urged to join global fight against poverty

By REBECCA TORR Published: 17th October 2007 BAHRAINIS are being urged to join the fight... more