NGOs Send Letter to Members of Congress over Changes to SFOPS Source: Alex Wong/Getty Images North America On 28 July 2014, a coalition of NGOs sent a letter to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Congresswoman Kay Granger (R-TX), and Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY) regarding proposed changes to Section 7008 of the annual[…]
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Members of Congress Send Bipartisan Letter to King Hamad Over Expulsion of Tom Malinowski Washington, D.C. – On 18 July, members of the United States Congress sent a bipartisan letter to King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa of Bahrain to express their concern over the Bahraini government’s decision to expel Tom Malinowski, the Assistant Secretary[…]
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Event Summary: Combating Migrant Labor Abuses & Ending Human Trafficking in the Gulf 8 July, 2014 — Washington, D.C. — Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), in conjunction with the Solidarity Center of the AFL-CIO, hosted a briefing on Capitol Hill titled “Modern Day Slavery: What the U.S. Government and the[…]
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Sheikh Mohammed Habib al-Miqdad: July’s Champion for Justice Sheikh Mohammed Habib al-Miqdad (al-Moqdad, al-Muqdad, al-Mekdad, Alsafaf), a prominent Bahraini-Swedish religious leader, scholar, social activist and president of Al-Zahra Charity Institution for Orphans, was born in the Bilad Al Qadeem region of Bahrain. He is well-known for speaking out against injustices related to corruption, discrimination, arbitrary detention[…]
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ADHRB Holds Event at the UN Human Rights Council, Husain Abdulla Speaks in Session Last week ADHRB was at the 25th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. In addition to conducted high-level meetings to discuss the human rights situation in Bahrain, ADHRB co-sponsored an event on Bahraini Human Rights Defenders, Bahrain’s Implementation of its[…]
