Bahrain's record on human rights has been described by Human Rights Watch as "dismal", and having "deteriorated sharply in the latter half of 2010". Their...
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The Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR; Arabic: مركز البحرين لحقوق الإنسان, romanized: Markaz al-Baḥrayn li-Ḥuqūq al-Insān) was a Bahraini non-profit...
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"cross-dressing". LGBTQ portal Bahrain portal Criminalisation of homosexuality Human rights in Bahrain LGBT rights in the Middle East LGBT rights in Asia Proposed amendments...
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appointed to the cabinet. In 2005, Houda Ezra Nonoo, a Jewish activist, who since 2004 also headed the Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society which has campaigned...
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Bahrain Human Rights Society (BHRS; Arabic: الجمعية البحرينية لحقوق الإنسان, romanized: al-Jamʻīyah al-Baḥraynīyah li-Ḥuqūq al-Insān) was set up in 2002...
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for Human Rights, Human Rights First, Independent Irish figures, Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Without Frontiers, Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, Bahrain...
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The Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society (Arabic: جمعية مراقبة حقوق الإنسان البحرينية, romanized: Jamʻīyat Murāqabat Ḥuqūq al-Insān al-Baḥraynīyah) is a...
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The Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights (BYSHR; Arabic: جمعية شباب البحرين لحقوق الإنسان, romanized: Jamʻīyat Shabāb al-Baḥrayn li-Ḥuqūq al-Insān) is...
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Religion in Bahrain (2020 census) Islam (74.02%) Others (25.98%) The Constitution of Bahrain states that Islam is the official religion and that Shari'a...
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Human rights in the Middle East have been shaped by the legal and political development of international human rights law after the Second World War,...
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Bahraini uprising insurgency in Bahrain History of Bahrain Human rights in Bahrain Bahrain Freedom Movement "Bahrain's Uprising: Regional Dimensions...
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Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) is a non-profit human rights organisation based in London which promotes democratisation and human rights...
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announced the cancellation of the race for 2011. Human rights activists called for a cancellation of the 2012 Bahrain Grand Prix, which took place on 22 April...
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for Human Rights Law Human Rights Law Centre Bahrain Centre for Human Rights Bahrain Human Rights Society Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society Bahrain Youth...
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ten-year-old child. In total 355 individuals were arrested of which children made up 21 percent. The Bahrain Centre for Human Rights said that the NSA was...
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for violating the human rights of groups including dissidents, political opposition figures, and its Shia Muslim population. Bahrain developed one of the...
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2011 Bahraini uprising (redirect from 2011 protests in Bahrain)
tensions have increased "dangerously". The state of human rights in Bahrain was criticized in the period between 1975 and 2001. The government had committed...
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in Bahrain Al Muntada Faisal Fulad Freedom of religion in Bahrain Human rights organizations in Bahrain Bahrain Centre for Human Rights Bahrain Human Rights...
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cable's speech Interview in OpenDemocracy Interview in The Independent Speaking to the United Nations on human rights in Bahrain BBC News coverage of criminal...
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Bahrain ratified the 2000 UN TIP Protocol in June 2004. In 2023, the Organised Crime Index gave the country a score of 8 out of 10 for human trafficking...
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Abdulhadi al-Khawaja (category Bahraini human rights activists)
to promote human rights in Bahrain. He has held a number of positions and played various roles in regional and international human rights organizations...
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them over ten activists. During February 2009, several key human rights defenders in Bahrain were arbitrarily arrested and detained. The issue of immunity...
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Human rights in Kuwait are a topic of significant concern. Most recently, Kuwait has been facing significant criticism for its citizenship revocation...
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Maryam al-Khawaja (category Human rights in Bahrain)
Khadija Almousawi, and Bahraini-Danish human rights activist Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja. Her father had been wanted in Bahrain since the mid-1980s. At the age of...
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Al Muntada (category Human rights in Bahrain)
Forum) is a Bahrain society set up by academics, journalists and businessmen to promote liberalism in the Kingdom. It was established in 2001 to provide...
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Politics of Bahrain has since 2002 taken place in a framework of a constitutional monarchy where the government is appointed by the King of Bahrain, King Hamad...
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slavery existed in Bahrain until the 1930s. Slavery was formally abolished in Bahrain in 1937. Slavery ended earlier in Bahrain than in any other Gulf...
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progress in addressing the recent serious concerns about the human rights situation in Bahrain, reiterated by the Foreign Secretary yesterday. We also hope...
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Nabeel Rajab (category Bahraini human rights activists)
September 1964) is a Bahraini human rights activist and opposition figure. He is the president of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR), a member of the...
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deteriorating human rights situation in Bahrain is reported to have reached its height in the mid-1990s (see: 1990s uprising in Bahrain) when thousands...
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