Publications

Liberty at Risk: Reprisals Against Human Rights Defenders in the Gulf Region and Neighbouring Countries

  • Publications
  • MENA
  • 22/08/2016

Download Introduction This report by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) aims to set out the cases of human rights defenders in the Gulf region and

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Report on Torture in Kuwait (July 2016)

  • Publications
  • Kuwait
  • 27/07/2016

Download Introduction In this report, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) aims to present some of the issues and cases of human rights defenders as they

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Iraqi Kurdistan: Women Human Rights Defenders Challenging a Continuum of Violence

  • Publications
  • Iraqi Kurdistan
  • 1/06/2016

Download Introduction Women human rights defenders (WHRDs) in Iraqi Kurdistan face the same types of risks as any other human rights defender worldwide, but as

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Special Report: Torture in Saudi Arabia

  • Publications
  • Saudi Arabia
  • 25/04/2016

Download This report aims to present some of the issues facing human rights defenders in violation of the UN Convention Against Torture and Other, Cruel, Inhuman

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Silenced Voices: Judicial targeting of human rights defenders in Saudi Arabia

  • Publications
  • Saudi Arabia
  • 11/04/2016

Download Overview: Saudi Arabia is a member state of the United Nations and therefore committed to uphold and respect the basic tenets of the Universal

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Syrian Human Rights Defenders Losing Hope with International Community as Human Rights Violations Continue Unabated

  • Publications
  • Syria
  • 15/03/2016

Download The stories of human rights defenders (HRDs) in Syria demonstrate some of the terrifying outcomes of the conflict in Syria of the last five years.

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Qatar, civil society and human rights: Lack of civil society space hinders work of human rights defenders

  • Publications
  • Qatar
  • 3/03/2016

Download Qatar is a country ruled by a monarchy with an unusually large immigrant population. It has been subject to significant criticism for its treatment of

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Gulf Centre for Human Rights Annual Report 2015: Human Rights Defenders in Prison and in Peril throughout the Gulf and Neighbouring Countries

  • Publications
  • MENA
  • 23/02/2016

This is the fourth Annual Report of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR), an independent NGO founded by human rights defenders from the Gulf region in 2011. GCHR

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SPECIAL REPORT: Yemeni journalists and human rights defenders at risk during wartime

  • Publications
  • Yemen
  • 2/05/2015

Download Early in April, the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution calling for the swift resumption of peace talks and an end to violence in Yemen.

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