14 September 2016 – In 2011, the Government of Bahrain violently suppressed the country’s peaceful pro-democracy movement. More than half of the population protested structural inequal... Read more
13 September 2016 – BIRD’s Director of Advocacy, Sayed Alwadaei, today delivered an oral intervention under item 3 on arbitrary detention in Bahrain at the 33rd session of the Hu... Read more
For Immediate release: 13 September 2016 UN High Commissioner Slams “Disastrous” Bahrain for “Smashing the Voices of its People” The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Bin Ra’ad Al-... Read more
10 August 2016 – NGO’s today sent an open letter to Boris Johnson, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, raising urgent concerns over the poor human rights rec... Read more
Brussels, 08 July 2016 Yesterday, the European Parliament adopted, with a large majority, a resolution condemning recent human rights abuses performed by Bahraini authorities, and strongly c... Read more
A copy of the MEPs open letter can be found here. The Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy alongside the European Centre for Democracy and Human Rights, together with Americans for Dem... Read more
Leading human rights NGOs have called on all Member States of the UN Human Rights Council to vote against Russian-led amendments to an important resolution on “the promotion of protect... Read more
16 March 2016 – Geneva, Switzerland – The 31st UN Human Rights Council has heard several oral interventions on behalf of the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD), Am... Read more
09 March 2016 – Geneva, Switzerland – The 31st UN Human Rights Council has heard several oral interventions on behalf of the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD), Am... Read more
16 December 2015 – London – The Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) in cooperation with the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Democracy in Bahrain and Human Rights Watch h... Read more
