The following is a joint appeal to three UN Special Rapporteurs calling for an investigation to torture in Bahraini prisons. The appeal, signed by over 50 NGOs, was initiated by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights and the Bahrain Centre ...

. . . . . On the 28th February, at the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council,  more than forty governments from every continent in the world delivered a joint declaration raising “serious concern” with ongoing repression and human rights violations in Bahrain, and calling ...

Joint NGO Letter to the Member States of the United Nations: Excellency, The undersigned organizations are writing to urge your government to ensure that the human rights situation in Bahrain is addressed by the member states of the UN Human Rights Council ...

The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) and the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) strongly denounce the arbitrary arrest, detention, and politically motivated charges brought against human rights defender Mohamed Al Maskati in Bahrain. Yesterday, 17 October 2012, Mohamed ...

Geneva – The government of Bahrain must ensure threats against human rights defender Mohammed Al-Maskati are stopped immediately. After tweeting that he was in Geneva attending the 21st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Mr Al-Maskati, a human ...

Yesterday, Tuesday, 18 September 2012, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies, the International Federation for Human Rights, CIVICUS, Human Rights Watch, and the Khiam Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Torture and Bahrain Rehabilitation and Anti-Violence Organisation (BRAVO) held a ...

As human rights groups lobbying during the 21st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), we call on UNHRC member states participating in Bahrain's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) to join us in urging Bahrain to accept the UPR ...

Yesterday, Thursday September 13, the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) delivered an oral statement before the 21st session of the UN Human Rights Council, currently convening in Geneva. The intervention was delivered in response to the Secretary General's report addressing cooperation ...

Today, before the United Nations Human Rights Council, twenty seven governments from around the world joined together for the first time to deliver a declaration calling on Bahrain to cease grave human rights violations being carried out against pro-democracy activists ...

Joint NGO Letter to State Delegations at the United Nations Human Rights Council: Your Excellency, Since February 2011 the human rights situation in Bahrain has witnessed a severe deterioration. Widespread  human rights violations have been carried out against peaceful protestors calling for ...