Joint letter calls for Dr. Abduljalil Al-Singace to be freed, as he marks 1,000 days of hunger strike

  • Bahrain
  • 3/04/2024

The following is a joint letter sent to the authorities in Bahrain on 3 April 2024, signed by 28 NGOs, asking them to release Dr. Abduljalil Al-Singace, who has been on

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Solidarity statement with Maryam Al-Khawaja’s campaign to free her father in Bahrain and call for Gaza ceasefire

  • Bahrain
  • 22/02/2024

On 19 February 2024, Bahraini-Danish human rights campaigner Maryam Al-Khawaja announced publicly in a video that she has Hodgkin's lymphoma, stage 3 blood cancer, and

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GCHR’s 31st Periodic Report on Human Rights Violations in Iraq

  • Iraq
  • 12/01/2024

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) has documented the human rights situation in Iraq during the past five years since the start of the popular movement, including

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GCHR mourns the death of Moroccan woman human rights defender Bouchra Chetouani

  • MENA
  • 11/01/2024

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) joins the many people in our community who are mourning the untimely death of Moroccan woman human rights defender Bouchra

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Watch the Alternative Human Rights Expo II video

  • MENA
  • UAE
  • 20/11/2023

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) and 35 partners presented the Alternative Human Rights Expo II, an online event on 15 November 2023. The event was hosted by

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Women journalists under the guillotine in Iraq… media directors mastering harassment

  • Iraq
  • 2/11/2023

An Iraqi woman journalist speaks about harassment. For more than a year, B.A., an Iraqi journalist aged 30, has been trying to heal from wounds she sustained

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Campaign to promote freedom of expression law receives boost from members of parliament

  • Iraq
  • 31/10/2023

Iraqi human rights groups have been campaigning to increase public awareness of serious human rights violations stipulated in Iraq's Draft Law of Freedom of Expression

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Climate Prospects Campaign calls for national strategy on climate change and protection for climate activists in Iraq

  • Iraq
  • 26/10/2023

Several Iraqi human rights groups have issued a Position Paper on “Climate Change and Environmental Activity in Iraq for the Climate Prospects Campaign”, following

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Saudi human rights defender Mohammed Al-Qahtani still disappeared after one year

  • Saudi Arabia
  • 24/10/2023

The following is a joint letter sent to the Saudi authorities by 11 NGOs to authorities to immediately and unconditionally disclose Mohammed Al-Qahtani’s whereabouts

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