End Impunity: Violence against Journalists in Bahrain

2 November 2015 – On this day in 2013, two French journalists were murdered in Mali. To commemorate their loss, the United Nations (UN) proclaimed 2 November the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists. The corresponding UN resolution dedicated the date to all members of the press who have suffered from violence. It[…]

في اليوم العالمي للمعلمين: معلمو البحرين بين سنداني الاعتقال والفصل

يصادف الخامس من أكتوبر من كل عام اليوم العالمي للمعلم، وقد بدأ العالم الاحتفال بهذا اليوم منذ العام 1994 ويعد هذا اليوم إحياءً لذكرى توقيع التوصية المشتركة بين منظمة العمل الدولية ومنظمة الأمم المتحدة للتربية والعلم والثقافة (اليونسكو) في عام 1966 والتي تتعلق بأوضاع المعلمين في العالم. ويسعى العالم من خلال تخليد هذا اليوم لتعزيز[…]

Apart in Their Own Land II: Shia Discrimination in Bahrain

15 September 2015 — Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD), and the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) are pleased to announce the publishing of a new report entitled Apart in Their Own Land, Vol. II—a report on official and unofficial forms of discrimination[…]

Fundamentally Flawed: Bahrain’s Prisoners and Detainees Rights Commission

2 September 2015 – Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) and the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) today published a report on the Prisoners and Detainees Rights Commission (PDRC) in Bahrain. The PDRC is a UK trained body as part of the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s (FCO) assistance programme to[…]

Inside Jau: Rampant Torture and Abuse Inside Bahrain’s Political Prison

26 June 2015 – Bahrain’s prison authorities continue to humiliate, torture and mistreat inmates at Jau Prison, according to a new report released today by Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD), and the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR). The release of the report[…]