Category Archives: International issues

Call for the urgent release of Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja

The Bahrain Centre of Human Rights (BCHR) calls for the urgent and immediate release of... more

Formula 1 vehicles pass without paying attention to human rights violations in Bahrain.

Bahrain Center for Human Rights calls on the F1 to put pressure on Bahrain to... more

Joint Submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council, Universal Periodic Review Working Group (Forty-first session) Kingdom of Bahrain

Submission by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) and RAFTO Foundation for Human Rights... more

BCHR take active part in the UPR 2022 Pre-session on Bahrain in Geneva

On the 31 August 2022, Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR), has been selected to... more

AlKhawaja: Imprisoned since 2011 in Bahrain yet a human rights symbol around the world

Abdul-Hadi AlKhawaja, Bahraini human rights defender still-imprisoned for 11 years now, receives the Martin Ennals... more

U.S Department of State Issues its 2021 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Bahrain

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Bahrain is a hereditary monarchy. King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa is the... more

On 2022: Let us heal!

It is another year arriving, and for 2022 we are hanging on hope and are... more

Post-Pegasus: Protecting Human Rights Defenders in the 21st Century

On 29 October 2021, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) hosted a panel titled... more

Bahraini Journalist Nazeeha Saeed is Announced a Winner at the Arab Journalism Competition

Yesterday, the 23rd of September 2021, the Mohamed Hassanein Heikal Foundation for Arab Journalism announced... more

Members of BCHR targeted by Pegasus spyware

Between June 2020 and February 2021, Bahrain surveilled human rights activists, dissidents, and members of... more