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Seminar Invitation: Bahrain: deterioration of human rights and public freedoms
Lord Avebury, the Vice-Chairman of the Parliamentary Human Rights Group and Baroness Falkner of Margravine
Cordially invite you to a seminar on
Bahrain: deterioration of human rights and public freedoms
Human rights situation is rapidly deteriorating with arbitrary detentions, allegations of torture, crackdown on activists and curtailment of public freedoms. Speakers include international lawyers who have recently witnessed the attacks on protesters
11.00 am Thursday 5th August 2010
1 Abbey Gardens (Annexe to the House of Lords), London SW1P 3SE
The Observatory: Yemen: Acts of intimidation and threats of travel restrictions faced by Mr. Nabeel Rajab
7 July 2010
The Observatory has been informed by reliable sources about the acts of intimidation and threats of travel restrictions faced by Mr. Nabeel Rajab, President of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights.
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Yemen.
IHRC: Bahrain – 7 of 10 Ma’ameer detainees found guilty and sentenced to life
5 July 2010 (0830 GMT)
BREAKING NEWS / PRESS RELEASE: Bahrain – 7 of 10 Ma’ameer detainees found guilty and sentenced to life;
IHRC Trial Observer witnesses excessive use of police force against convicted men, their relatives and supporters inside and outside court;
Tear gas and rubber bullets used to disperse demonstrators outside court room
Bahraini reporter charged with violating gag order
New York, July 2, 2010— The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Bahraini authorities to drop charges against Mohammed al-Sawad, a reporter for the independent daily Al-Bilad, who is accused of violating a government-imposed gag order.
Countries under surveillance 2010 - Bahrain
Publisher Reporters Without Borders
Country Bahrain
Publication Date 18 March 2010
Cite as Reporters Without Borders, Countries under surveillance 2010 - Bahrain, 18 March 2010, available at: http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/4c21f66b28.html [accessed 24 June 2010]
Countries under surveillance 2010 - Bahrain
Bahrain is experiencing one of the region's highest Internet penetration rates. The democratization process has been losing momentum, which has had a negative impact on freedom of expression on the Web. The authorities have adopted the course of a massive filtering campaign, but the country's netizens are proving to be inventive when it comes to circumventing censorship and are mobilizing to defend their rights.
Bahrain: Human rights defender Mr Abdul-Redha Mohammed prevented from travelling
Posted on 2010/06/16
A de facto travel ban remains in place against human rights defender Mr Abdul-Redha Mohammed, who is being prevented from leaving Bahrain to meet his family in London.
U.S. Department of State: Trafficking in Persons Report 2010
BAHRAIN (Tier 2)
Bahrain is a destination country for men and women subjected to trafficking in persons, specifically forced labor and forced prostitution. Men and women from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Ethiopia, and Eritrea migrate voluntarily to Bahrain to work as domestic workers or as unskilled laborers in the construction and service industries. Some, however, face conditions of forced labor after arriving in Bahrain
FIDH: Open letter in view of the EU-GCC Joint Co-operation Council
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
OPEN LETTER
Open letter in view of the EU-GCC Joint Co-operation Council
Paris-Brussels, 11 June 2010
On the eve of the EU-GCC Joint Co-operation Council to be held on the 14th of June 2010, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) calls upon the EU and GCC Ministers to put human rights at the centre of their relations in all fields and at all levels.
Amnesty International Report 2010 - Bahrain
BAHRAIN
KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN
Head of state: King Hamad bin ‘Issa Al Khalifa
Head of government: Shaikh Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa
Death penalty: retentionist
Population: 0.8 million
Life expectancy: 75.6 years
Under-5 mortality (m/f): 13/13 per 1,000
Adult literacy: 88.8 per cent
The government took steps to promote human rights and to improve conditions for some migrant workers. However, it continued to penalize criticism of the royal family and failed to investigate allegations of torture in 2008. One person remained at risk of execution.
WAN-IFRA World Press Freedom Review, January-May 2010
A WAN-IFRA review of the last six months of 2010, has reported that press freedom is under attack on every continent. On Middle East and North Africa the report mentioned that:
“Those in power throughout the Middle East and North Africa continue to resort to harassment, censorship, prosecution, fining and imprisonment of news media professionals in order to control information. Their hostility toward independent and opposition media has often proven to be ruthless.”
