Category Archives: Womens rights

March Champions for Justice: Bahrain's Imprisoned Women

Champions for Justice for March 2015 More than four years since the Bahrain government’s brutal... more

Bahrain: Ayat Al-Safar Still In Detention For Sheltering Wanted Suspects

Bahrain Centre for Human Rights expresses its concern as the Bahraini government continues to exploit... more

Bahrain: Mother and Her Child Detained On Freedom of Assembly Charges

The Bahraini Ministry of Interior continues to detain a mother and her premature son. –... more

Bahrain: Women targeted in mass arrests over “popular referendum”

Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), the Bahrain Center for Human Rights... more

CEDAW: Concluding observations on the third periodic report of Bahrain

Download the document here, or read the text below. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination... more

Beware of the Middle East's Fake Feminists

We’ve all heard the story before: those Arab dictators may be mad with power, but at least... more

Amnesty Int'l: Grand prix protestors tortured in Bahrain

Nafeesa al-‘Asfoor, a mother-of-two, was arrested along with Rayhana al-Mousawi on 20 April as they... more

Report to The Committee On The Elimination Of All Forms Of Discrimination Against Women

  SUBMISSION TO THE COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN... more

International Women's Day: Bahraini Women imprisoned, tortured, killed, stripped from nationality, .. and impunity for abusers

7 Mar 2013 On the International Women's Day, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses... more

Bahrain authorities continue to target pro-democracy women with arbitrary arrests

A recent picture of Bahrain MOI masked thugs at a checkpoint. 8 August , 2012 Bahrain... more