Arrests Attacks on activists death penalty Discrimination

Bahrain Must End the Death Penalty and Protect the Right to Life
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Arrests Attacks on activists death penalty Discrimination

Bahrain Must End the Death Penalty and Protect the Right to Life

  On the occasion of the World Day Against the Death Penalty, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) renews its call for the immediate... more

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Bahrain: Non-Violence Is a Principle, Not a Crime

  On the International Day of Non-Violence, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) reaffirms... more

On the International Day of Democracy: Bahrain Needs Genuine Democracy, Not Formal Institutions

On the International Day of Democracy: Bahrain Needs Genuine Democracy, Not Formal Institutions   On... more

Bahrain: Enforced Disappearances Must End — Accountability Cannot Wait

Bahrain: Enforced Disappearances Must End — Accountability Cannot Wait   On the International Day of... more

BCHR Welcomes UN Special Rapporteur’s Call for the Immediate Release of Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja

  The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) welcomes the statement by the UN Special... more

BCHR Welcomes the Release of Environmental Activist Mohammed Jawad and Renews Call for Environmental Justice in Ma’ameer

BCHR Welcomes the Release of Environmental Activist Mohammed Jawad and Renews Call for Environmental Justice... more

Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja: Bahrain’s Mandela and the Continuing Struggle for Freedom and Human Dignity

Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja: Bahrain’s Mandela and the Continuing Struggle for Freedom and Human Dignity On the... more

Bahrain: Escalating Wave of Arbitrary Arrests and Systematic Suppression of Peaceful Assembly During the First Half of 2026

  The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) expresses grave alarm over the Bahraini authorities’... more

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Kingdom of Bahrain Joint Submission to the United Nations Universal Periodic Review 41st Session of the UPR Working Group

March 2022 Submitted by: Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) (ECOSOC Status)... 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

BCHR at HRC

Human Rights Council Side Event Highlights Bahrain’s Ongoing Human Rights Crisis

Geneva — 25 September The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), in cooperation with international... more

Bahrain: BCHR Side Event on Human Rights in Bahrain at the 58th Session of the UN Human Rights Council

Date: 24th March 2025 Organiser: Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) Moderator: Deewanshi Vats, Research,... more

HRC57 Side Event – 12 September 2024 A Decade of Human Rights in Bahrain – Assessing Developments from 2014 to 2024

On 12 September 2024, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, the Bahrain Center for... 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

Bahrain: Prisoners of conscience denied proper medical care, including Dr. Abduljalil Al-Singace, on hunger strike for a year

Prisoners in Bahrain are suffering due to poor conditions and lack of adequate medical care,... more

Report of the UN Secretary-General regarding the cooperation with the UN, its representatives & mechanisms in the field of human rights

The United Nations’ Secretary General has issues his report aligned with the Human Rights Council’s... more

Oral Intervention at 35th UN Human Rights Council

Address made to the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression, David Kaye. Mr.... more

HRC 34 Oral Interventions: Item #3 General Debate on Bahrain

Mr. President, Alsalam Foundation, with Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain, the Bahrain... more

Halt the Execution

Mohammed Ramadan and Hussain Ali Moosa are currently at imminent risk of execution. They were sentenced to death in December 2014 for their alleged involvement in the explosion in al-Dair on 14 February 2014 that resulted in the death of a policeman.

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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... more

Media in Bahrain: Constrained & a Propaganda Tool for the Government

Media overview in Bahrain Between 1939 and 1940, Bahrain witnessed the opening of its first... more

Cosmetic Reforms: Assessing Bahrain’s Implementation of the BICI Recommendations Ten Years Later

23 November 2021 marks the tenth anniversary of the King’s adoption of the recommendations of... more