Please join Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Human Rights First, Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy, Pen International, Monitor of Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, and the European-Saudi Organization for Human Rights on 10 March at 10:00 AM in Room XI at the Palais de Nationes for[…]
Please join Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain, The Bahrain Center for Human Rights, Bahrain Institute for Rights & Democracy and CIVICUS on 12 March at 10:30 am in Room XIX of the Palais de Nations for a look at how to empower civil society[…]
Today, 5 March, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain Advocacy Associate, Michael Payne, delivered an oral intervention during an Interactive Dialogue with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights at the 28th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland. Please continue reading below for his full remarks. A pdf of[…]
5 March 2015 – Washington, DC – Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) sent a letter to the office of Secretary of State John Kerry today, urging him to use his trip to Saudi Arabia as an opportunity to press Saudi officials on human rights reforms. Secretary Kerry will meet with King[…]
4 March 2015 – Bahrain’s Court of Appeals convened today over human rights defender Nabeel Rajab’s appeal case; unfortunately the court again postponed the decision until 15 March. Rajab’s lawyers requested that a travel ban that has been in place since 2 November be lifted, however the court has declined this request. Nabeel Rajab may[…]