20 February 2018 – 25 members of the UK Parliament wrote to Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson today, urging him to publicly call for the release of leading rights defender Nabeel Rajab and to... Read more
14 September 2017 – Turning a blind eye to human rights in trade and security deals in the Gulf engenders violence and instability, warns a London-based rights group in letters to four... Read more
14 December 2016 – NGOs today wrote a letter to Prime Minister Theresa May to urge the UK Government to call for the unconditional release of human rights defender Nabeel Rajab, who fa... Read more
7 December 2016 – Theresa May’s landmark speech in Bahrain today suggests little real change for the UK-Gulf relationship, with human rights set to take a back seat. Speaking in... Read more
5 December 2016 – Rights groups are writing to Prime Minister Theresa May ahead of her visit to Bahrain on Tuesday 6 December urging her to raise human rights as she attends the Gulf C... Read more
Press Release 14 October 2016 – Campaigners are calling on Prince Charles to cancel his upcoming visit to Bahrain in light of the country’s deteriorating situation, as a leading... 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
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
We Are Raif: a campaign for free speech and human rights in Saudi Arabia Today, we announce the formation of ‘We Are Raif: a campaign for free speech and human rights in Saudi Arabia’. The c... Read more
