With the vast support that emerged for the formerly imprisoned Bahrain-born footballer Hakeem AlAraibi, Australia and the broader football community demonstrated how influence and pressure could promote human rights – including the release of AlAraibi. Unfortunately, these efforts are now being undermined by the backing of Sheikh Salman’s attempt to get re-elected as president of[…]
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Since the 2011 protests and intensified crackdown on civil society, Bahraini authorities continue to use elements of torture, abuse, threats, and unjust treatment against political prisoners as reprisals for their activism. Pressing concerns in the kingdom’s prisons, ran by the corrupt Ministry of Interior, range from poor living conditions to medical neglect and blatant disregard[…]
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27 March 2019 – Yesterday, 26 March 2019, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) and the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD), along with 13 NGOs, sent a letter to the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) calling on them and Formula One to visit Najah Yusuf and Ahmed Humaidan in prison[…]
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26 March 2019 – Today, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), and Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), along with 22 other international human rights organizations, issued a joint letter to the Formula One Group, raising concerns regarding the human rights abuses surrounding the race in[…]
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On 8 March 2019, seven United Nations (UN) Special Procedures offices sent a letter (OL KWT 1/2019) to the Kuwaiti government detailing serious concerns with business practices and the lack of care for human rights. The communication was sent by the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business[…]
