On 25 March 2019, Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Dick Durbin (D-lL) introduced a bi-partisan bill (S.854) that would halt US arm sales to countries that “engage in human rights abuses, commit war crimes, or have ties to extremist groups.” If passed, this bill would significantly impact the trajectory of the war in Yemen, a[…]
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Apr
Apr
On 27 March 2019, an attack took place near the entrance of Kitaf rural hospital in Yemen, killing seven people, four of whom were children. This most recent air raid has drawn significant international attention as the United Nations (UN) human rights staff in Yemen have begun an investigation into the attack. Calls for an[…]
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Apr
Apr
Late last month, the International Centre for Justice and Human Rights (ICJHR) was made aware that retirement pension payments to detainees in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) prison, al-Razeen, have been suspended. The decision to deny retirement pensions to detainees is just another aspect of the broader systematic abuse within the Emirati prison system. Following[…]
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Mar
Mar
Yesterday, 20 March 2019, marked the two-year anniversary of when twelve United Arab Emirates (UAE) officials forcibly arrested Ahmed Mansoor, an award-winning human rights activist, at his home in Ajman in 2017. Following his arrest, Mansoor was forcibly disappeared, kept in solitary confinement, and denied access to an attorney. Ahmed Mansoor was arrested in 2017[…]
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Mar
Mar
On International Women’s Day, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) highlights brave women human rights defenders and women who have been unjustly subjected to human rights violations and imprisonment in the Gulf. Zahra Salman Hasan Zahra Salman Hasan (Zahra Al-Shaikh) is a Bahraini human rights defender and mother. She played a role[…]
