On Tuesday 18 September 2018 at the 39th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain delivered an oral intervention during the Item 4 General Debate calling the Council’s attention to the rising political repression surrounding Bahrain’s upcoming parliamentary elections in November 2018. While elections should be[…]
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Sep
31 August 2018 – The United Stated (US) Department of State says it has urged Bahrain to stop its attacks on civil society activists and political opposition leaders according to a communication issued earlier this month. Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) welcomes the State Department’s comments and urges it to publicly[…]
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On Tuesday 3 July 2018, during the Item 9 General Debate concerning the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action at the 38th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Yusuf al-Hoori delivered an oral intervention calling attention to Bahrain’s discrimination against its Shia minority community. He particularly raised the arrests of prominent political and[…]
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Jun
Jun
On Tuesday 19 June 2018, at the 38th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) delivered an oral intervention before the Council under the Item 2 General Debate. The intervention thanked the High Commissioner for his repeated highlighting of the spurious charges Nabeel Rajab faces,[…]
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Jun
Ahead of the 38th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain submitted a written statement on the Bahraini government’s closure of independent political space ahead of the upcoming 2018 parliamentary elections. Read a PDF of the written statement here. Complete Closure of Independent Political Space[…]
