4 February 2015 – A group of United Nations human rights experts are urging the Government of Bahrain to release opposition politician and religious figure Sheikh Ali Salman who...
Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Liz Throssell
Location: Geneva
Date: 30 December 2014
Subject: 1) Bahrain
We are seriously...
29 December 2014 – A group of United Nations human rights experts are urging the government of Bahrain to drop charges against three women human rights activists exercising their...
Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Rupert Colville
Location: Geneva
Date: 3 October 2014
(1) Bahrain
We are alarmed at the detention of human...
GENEVA (5 September 2014) – A group of United Nations independent human rights experts has urged the government of Bahrain to release prominent human rights defender Maryam Al-...
Video statement on Bahrain given by the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Juan Mendez on the International day of torture victims:
https://media.wcl.american.edu/Mediasite/Play/...
GENEVA (16 May 2014) – The United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances* reviewed during its 103rd session more than one hundred newly reported cases and...
24 April 2014 – An independent United Nations human rights expert today urged the Government of Bahrain to stop the harassment and persecution of a Shi’a Muslim leader...
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Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Concluding observations on the third periodic report of...