Eight Years of Unfulfilled Promises: What ADHRB’s Report to the Committee Against Torture Reveals About Bahrain?

Executive summary The following report was produced by Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain and included information presented during the July 2025 session of the UN Committee Against Torture. It considers developments in Bahrain regarding the recommendations that the organisation had raised in the 2017 CAT report. For each of the 18 recommendations,[…]

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[…]

UN Committee against Torture releases Concluding Observations on Kuwait

On 12 August 2016, the United Nations (UN) Committee against Torture (CAT) adopted its concluding observations for Kuwait’s third periodic report. Ahead of the review, Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) submitted a shadow report to the Committee detailing the Government of Kuwait’s failings to adequately address ongoing allegations of the torture[…]