Introduction Tensions between Kuwait and the Philippines have steadily increased in recent years, specifically concerning the circumstances of the 268,000 Filipino migrant and domestic workers (MDWs) in Kuwait. In 2022, remittances from Kuwait to the Philippines amounted to approximately $597 million. Yet the mistreatment, in this case, withholding payments, of Filipino MDWs in Kuwait does[…]
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The Kingdom of Bahrain ratified the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UN-CAC) on 8 February 2005, which obligates the country to take steps to counter all forms of governmental corruption, including fraud, misappropriation, embezzlement, and illicit enrichment. Despite the government’s ratification of the treaty, however, ADHRB has been unable to monitor any significant progress towards[…]
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Today, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) launched an international campaign urging the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to disclose the fate of at least 60 human rights defenders, civil society activists, and Emirati political dissidents known as the “UAE 94” group who have been arbitrarily detained since 2012 for their advocacy of[…]
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The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) adopted an opinion on 27 March 2023 and published on its website on 6 June 2023 concerning the case of Bahraini human rights defender and opposition leader Dr. AbdulJalil Al-Singace. The 61-year old activist was arrested in 2011, brutally tortured, and tried in an unfair trial.[…]
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Updated: On the morning of 29 May 2023, Saudi authorities carried out the arbitrary execution sentence against the two Bahraini youths, Sadeq Thamer and Jaafar Sultan, without prior notice, according to a statement issued by the Saudi Ministry of Interior. Sadeq was a 26-year-old employee at Thamer Commercial Company at that time and Jaafar was[…]
