Upcoming Event: Civil Society Documentation & Engagement with UN Mechanisms

                    Please join Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain, The Bahrain Center for Human Rights, Bahrain Institute for Rights & Democracy and CIVICUS on 12 March at 10:30 am in Room XIX of the Palais de Nations for a look at how to empower civil society[…]

ADHRB Engages in Interactive Dialogue with UN High Commissioner at HRC28

Today, 5 March, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain Advocacy Associate, Michael Payne, delivered an oral intervention during an Interactive Dialogue with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights at the 28th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland. Please continue reading below for his full remarks. A pdf of[…]

Bahrain NGOs Respond to Statement at HRC28

3 March 2015 – Geneva, Switzerland – Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights and the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy take this opportunity to respond to the statement made today by Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Bahrain, Abdullah Abdullatif Abdullah, at the 28th Session of the[…]

United Nations Special Procedures Complaint Program

Background Information In October 2013, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) began a program to help raise awareness for cases of individuals who have been victims of human rights abuses in Bahrain or the broader Gulf region. Through this program, ADHRB is able to complain on behalf of the individual victims to[…]

ADHRB Submits Report to Committee on Civil and Political Rights

Bahrain acceded to the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) in 2006, the only Arab Gulf monarchy to do so at the time. In acceding to the Convention, Bahrain agreed to be bound by the provisions of the ICCPR without the need for an act of signature. In accordance to Article 40 of[…]