5 March 2019 – Today, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) held a panel event at the 40th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) in which panelists outlined the deteriorating human rights situation in Bahrain, making the case for international action to stem the slide in human rights. The[…]
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On Monday 2 July, during the Item 8 General Debate on the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action at the 38th session of the Human Rights Council, ADHRB delivered an oral intervention calling attention to the plight of women activists detained in Bahrain’s Isa Town Women’s Prison. Many of the women were tortured, including through[…]
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Mar
On 9 March 2018 during the 37th session of the Human Rights Council, ADHRB’s legal fellow Bridget Quitter delivered an intervention on behalf of ADHRB under the Item 3 General Debate. In her intervention, Quitter raised concerns over Bahrain’s targeting of women’s activists for reprisals, in particular Ebtisam al-Saegh. Click here for a PDF of[…]
