Category Archives: Womens rights
Women's groups accuse Bahrain of cutting funds on political grounds
Government slashes aid to 18 NGOs due to budget crisis and blocks foreign funding, leaving... more
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