Advocacy / Bahrain
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.
Bahrain: joint letter on human rights situation to Member and Observer States of the UN Human Rights Council
MENA Rights Group joins 30+ organisations in raising concerns over the human rights situation in Bahrain to Member and Observer States of the UN Human Rights Council ahead of its 56th session. In this joint letter, we highlight the continued arbitrary detention of human rights defenders in Bahrain and call on authorities to release them.
Release Dr Abduljalil al-Singace: Joint Letter to Bahraini authorities marking 1000 days of hunger strike
MENA Rights Group joins 25+ civil society organisations in urging Bahraini authorities to release and provide adequate healthcare to human rights defender Dr Abduljalil al-Singace, who marks 1,000 days on a liquids-only hunger strike on April 3, 2024.
