GCHR’s activities during the 61st session of the UN Human Rights Council
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) carried out advocacy on behalf of human rights defenders (HRDs) at the 61st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council
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The Gulf region and neighbouring countries: Ongoing repression by authorities
Introduction The Gulf region and its neighbouring countries are witnessing an unprecedented and systematic campaign of repression. The ongoing war is being used as a
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GCHR’s Annual Report published amid war and deterioration of freedom
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) is releasing its 2025 annual report, “Human Rights in the Middle East Countries”, during one of the starkest periods of war
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The Gulf region and neighbouring countries: Authorities exercising more repression and silencing free voices, exploiting current war
Most governments in the Gulf region and neighbouring countries, exploiting the current war, are intensifying their systematic repression to suppress public freedoms,
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When freedom becomes a crime; A state of persecution and delayed justice
Fifteen years after a "revolution" that raised the slogans of "freedom, dignity, and justice," Tunisia is now experiencing one of its most sensitive periods regarding
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On IWD, GCHR Recognises the Role of WHRDs: Defending Rights, Bearing the Burden with a new report
On International Women’s Day, marked annually on 08 March, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) honours the extraordinary contributions of women worldwide, with
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Assassination of WHRD Yanar Mohammed, Emblematic Figure of the Feminist Movement, Condemned
The assassination of woman human rights defender Yanar Mohammed, a prominent Iraqi feminist and President of the Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI),
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Father of political dissident Fawaz Al-Kathiri arrested
Update: On 01 March 2026, citizen Nayef Rakhees Dhahi Al-Fadhli, father of political opponent Fawaz Al-Kathiri, was released on bail. Since the dissolution of the
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Narges Mohammadi sentenced to seven and a half years in prison amidst ongoing crackdown on human rights defenders and protesters
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) strongly condemns the recent sentencing in Iran of woman human rights defender Narges Mohammadi, the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize
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