WASHINGTON, DC – December 11, 2013 –Yesterday marked the twentieth anniversary of the United Nations Human Rights Day and the fifty-fifth anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. A time for reflection, we pause to acknowledge the successes made by champions of human rights and to remember our shared duty in[…]
ADHRB Exclusive Interview: Activist Travis Brimhall Last week, while government officials, security advisors, and members of the intelligence community were in Bahrain for the Manama Dialogue, Travis Brimhall, Head of the International Office for the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), spend the week in Washington, D.C., speaking with members of the broader policy community to discuss the human[…]
Nabeel Rajab: ADHRB’s December Champion for Justice Nabeel Rajab is a building contractor and a committed human rights activist who has held numerous leading positions in human rights organizations such as the International Federation for Human Rights, the Middle East division of Human Rights Watch, and Bahrain Rehabilitation and Anti-Violence Organization. Most recently, he served[…]
House Foreign Affairs Committee Holds Bahrain Hearing Photo Credit: ADHRB Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) applauds the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) for holding a hearing on 19 November entitled “U.S. Policy Toward the Arabian Peninsula: Yemen and Bahrain,” featuring testimony from U.S. Department[…]
Featured Tweets Champions for Justice: Bahrain’s Prisoners of Conscience More than two years since the Government of Bahrain’s brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in the country, arbitrary arrests, injuries to protesters and politically motivated prison sentences continue. Numerous Bahrainis remain behind bars today, including more than a dozen prisoners of conscience. With these injustices firmly[…]
