ADHRB at HRC35: Event Summary on Women’s Rights in Saudi Arabia

On 8 June 2017, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) organized a side event during the UN Human Rights Council’s 35th Session in Geneva. Entitled “Women’s Rights in Saudi Arabia – Civil society, development, and the UN Commission on Women,” the event addressed the potential future role of women in the country’s[…]

GCC Cases Raised in the HRC 35 Special Procedures Joint Communications Report

Bahrain BHR 2/2017 JUA 17 Feb 2017 Mandates: Arbitrary Detention, Disability, Freedom of opinion and expression, Freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Human rights defenders, Torture Information received concerning the arbitrary arrest and detention of six individuals, including one person with an intellectual disability and two minors, for exercising their rights to freedom of[…]

UN Committee Against Torture Releases Concluding Report on Bahrain

12 May 2017 – The United Nations (UN) Committee Against Torture (CAT) released its concluding observations regarding Bahrain’s second and third periodic reports today as the panel’s 60th session comes to a close in Geneva. This session marked the first time in five years that the CAT has conducted a review of Bahrain’s record of[…]

ADHRB Responds to Saudi High Level Statement at HRC 34

  28 February 2017—Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), in response to the statement made today by Bandar bin Mohammed al-Aiban, the head of Saudi Arabia’s Human Rights Commission, during the High Level Segment of the Human Rights Council (HRC), is concerned by Saudi Arabia’s continued lack of commitment to the promotion[…]

Response to Bahrain’s High Level Statement at the 34th Session of the UN Human Rights Council

We, the undersigned, in reaction to the statement made today by Bahrain’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Mr. Abdulla Faisal al-Doseri, during the High Level Segment of the Human Rights Council (HRC), are concerned by Bahrain’s continued lack of commitment to the promotion and protection of human rights. Mr. al-Doseri used the opportunity to underscore Bahrain’s legal[…]