Advocacy / Bahrain
Bahrain - UN Committee against Torture must call out the absence of accountability for grave human rights violations
MENA Rights Group joins 10 NGOs in calling on the UN Committee against Torture to hold Bahrain accountable for ongoing violations of the Convention against Torture ahead of its review on 18-19 November 2025.
UN Secretary-General’s 2025 report highlights reprisals against human rights defenders in the MENA
MENA Rights Group provides a summary of the UNSG's main concerns over reprisals against human rights defenders in the MENA region, particularly in Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Yemen.
Bahrain: Joint letter on human rights situation to member and observer states of the united nations human rights council
MENA Rights Group, alongside 26 civil society organizations, calls on UN Human Rights Council member and observer states to urge Bahrain to release arbitrarily detained activists and death row inmates ahead of Eid al-Adha.
Bahrain must immediately free detained human rights defender Ali al-Hajee
MENA Rights Group joins 23 organisations to call on Bahraini authorities to immediately release human rights defender Ali al-Hajee, recently arrested for his social media activity.
Open letter to the King of Bahrain on Equal Nationality Rights
MENA Rights Group joins partner organisations in addressing a letter to the King of Bahrain to demand that equal rights be granted to women in transmitting their citizenship to children.
NGOs urge EU to call for the release of two arbitrarily detained Bahraini-EU nationals Al-Khawaja and Al-Muqdad
MENA Rights Group joins 30 organisations in a joint letter to EU leaders urging them to call on Bahrain to release Abdulhadi al-Khawaja and Mohammed Habib al-Muqdad, two EU-Bahraini nationals who are arbitrarily detained.
UN Secretary-General’s 2024 report highlights reprisals against human rights defenders in the MENA
MENA Rights Group provides a summary of the UNSG's main concerns over reprisals against human rights defenders in the MENA region, particularly in Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Yemen.
Bahrain: Joint Letter on Human Rights Priorities to All Member States of the United Nations General Assembly
On the occasion of the UN's 79th session, MENA Rights Group joined 28 civil society organisations in urging UN Member States to advocate for the release of human rights defenders opposition leaders, death row inmates, and all those who remain unfairly imprisoned in Bahrain during the high-level General Debate.
Bahrain: NGOs call on the National Institution for Human Rights to improve its independence, effectiveness and to engage with independent civil society to better fulfill its mandate
MENA Rights Group, Salam for Democracy and Human Rightsand the Bahrain Human Rights Society call on the Government of Bahrain and Bahrain’s National Institution for Human Rights (NIHRB) to increase the effectiveness of the NIHRB’s mandate and its independence from other branches (of government) and to improve the character of the NIHRB’s leadership for its accreditation level to be increased.