Friday 28th of July – At HRC41, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) delivered an oral intervention during the panel discussion on the rights of older women. ADHRB drew attention to the challenges that many countries face when establishing social and economic programs for elderly women, click here for PDF. Madame Vice[…]
25 June 2019 – Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), along with 39 other NGOs, signed onto a joint letter to 48 missions and the EU mission in Geneva in regards to the human rights situation in Saudi Arabia and calling on states to initiate Human Rights Council action by presenting a[…]
On Wednesday 26 June, during the 41st session of the Human Rights Council, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) delivered an oral intervention during Item 3 Interactive Dialogue with Special Rapporteur on Migrants. In the intervention, ADHRB raised concerns about the United Arab Emirates’ systematic abuse and exploitation of migrant workers under the[…]
On 17 April 2019, the United Nations (UN) Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Special Rapporteur on the right to education published an allegation letter addressed to Saudi Arabia regarding the alleged arrest and continued detention of Qatari Exchange student Adbulaziz Saeed Saad Halwan Abdullah. Abdullah is a Qatari exchange student from the Ministry[…]
Bahrain Bahrain JUA 11 Dec. 2018 BHR 6/2018 Mandates: Executions, Independence of judges and lawyers, Terrorism, Torture Alleged Victims: 20 Information received concerning the imposition of the death penalty, including cases where there is an immediate risk of execution, and the conduct of trials in the Bahrain. “. . . [W]e are expressing our most[…]