about bird
The Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) is a non-profit organisation focusing on advocacy, education and awareness for the calls of democracy and human rights in Bahrain.
meet our advisory board
Husain Abdulla is the Executive Director of Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain. Husain also works closely with members of the Bahraini-American community to ensure that their voices are heard by US government officials and the broader American public. He holds a Master’s degree in Political Science and International Relations from the University of West Florida and a B.A. in Political Science and Mathematics from the University of South Alabama.
Daniel Carey is an associate solicitor at Deighton Pierce Glynn. He specialises in human rights claims, and has brought claims in UK courts and the European Court of Human Rights. He received the Peter Duffy Award from Liberty and JUSTICE in 2009. The Chambers and Legal 500 directories rank Daniel as a leading solicitor for administrative and public law and in civil liberties and human rights.
Nicholas McGeehan is the former Bahrain, Qatar, and United Arab Emirates researcher at Human Rights Watch. He has a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence and an LLM from the Irish Center for Human Rights in Galway. Nicholas’s involvement in human rights began in 2004, when he founded Mafiwasta, an NGO that campaigned for migrant workers’ rights in the Gulf.
our staff
We do not publicly list our staff on the website. This is because BIRDBH’s staff have faced reprisals in the past for their human rights campaigning.
To contact us, please email team@birdbh.org
BIRDBH is an equal opportunity employer.