Special report on torture in Kuwait presented to UN Committee against Torture
In a Special Report on “Torture in Kuwait”, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) aims to present some of the issues and cases of human rights defenders as
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Office of Violations Documentation Center (VDC) in Damascus Al-Ghouta attacked
The Violations Documentation Centre in Syria (VDC) reported that a Syrian government jet fighter attacked the office of VDC in Douma city which is located in Al-Ghouta,
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Narges Mohammadi on hunger strike and needs to be allowed to get in touch with her family
Update: Narges Mohammadi has been given the right to speak to her children as of 16 July so she has reportedly stopped her hunger strike. 2016-07-12 Detained Iranian
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Reprisals continue against human rights defenders, especially those engaging in international advocacy
Reprisals against human rights defenders continue unabated in Bahrain, which includes travel bans on independent human rights defenders and journalists, among members of
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Human rights violators should not be allowed to remain on the UN Human Rights Council
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) and the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) call upon the United Nations General Assembly to suspend the
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NGOs call for women’s rights defender Ghada Jamsheer to remain free and an end to judicial harassment of women human rights defenders
After a prominent women’s rights defender was sentenced to a further year in prison, we the undersigned international human rights and feminist organisations call
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Travel ban imposed on journalist Nazeeha Saeed
Bahraini authorities prevented journalist Nazeeha Saeed from traveling at Bahrain International airport as part of a trend adopted by the government which includes
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Egyptian woman human rights defender Mozn Hassan banned from travel to feminist meeting
On 27 June, feminist activist and woman human rights defender Mozn Hassan was banned from travelling from Cairo to Beirut to participate in a meeting of the Women Human
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GCHR marks International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) calls on the United Nations and the international community to implement mechanisms of accountability for torture crimes on the
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