On Tuesday, 12 September 2017, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain delivered an oral intervention at the 36th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC). The intervention was delivered by ADHRB’s colleague Asma Darwish under the Council’s Item 2 General Debate with updates from the High Commissioner. To read and watch[…]
On Tuesday, 12 September 2017, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) delivered an oral intervention at the 36th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC). The intervention was delivered by ADHRB’s Advocacy Officer Michael Payne under the Council’s Item 2 General Debate. To read and watch the intervention, please see[…]
After 455 days of arbitrary detention, the Bahraini government has again postponed the trial of leading human rights defender and president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) Nabeel Rajab. Arrested on 13 June 2016, Rajab was sentenced to two years in prison in a separate case in July 2017, and is now[…]
11 September 2017 – Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) delivered an oral intervention today at the 36th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC). ADHRB’s Legal Fellow Devin Kenney delivered the intervention under HRC Item 3’s Clustered ID with the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. Video of[…]
11 September 2017, Geneva – This morning, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein presented his oral update to the 36th Session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC 36) titled “Darker and more Dangerous.” In his report to the Council, the High Commissioner again raised concerns over the deteriorating human[…]