Category Archives: Statements

From Paris to Manama: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the constitution of rights and freedoms

Joint Statement (10 December 2020) Many of the countries that have become democratic today, whose ...

Children of Bahrain are victims today of an uncertain future.

Children of Bahrain are victims today of an uncertain future. Commitment to implementing the Children’s ...

SALAM DHR with coordination with OHCHR organised a webinar session on “Special Procedures of the United Nations Human Rights Bodies” in the presence of 45 human rights defenders

On 15th July 2020, SALAM-DHR  hosted Serina Hammoud from Office of The High Commissioner for ...

Three human rights organizations welcome the statement of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on death sentences in Bahrain

Three Bahraini human rights organizations welcomed the statement issued on 14 July 2020 by the ...

The United Kingdom (UK) government’s launch of Magnitsky style sanctions for human rights must be evenly applied to all state actors engaged in human rights abuses including Bahrain

Beirut / London (07 July 2020) SALAM for Democracy and Human Rights (SALAM DHR) today urges the ...

Bahrain: Lawyers do not have sufficient independence … and the law does not protect their profession

SALAM DHR: Al-Shamlawi is one of the deans of the legal profession and his trial ...

World Bicycle Day: Team Bahrain McLaren sportswashing Bahrain’s human rights record 

On World Bicycle Day, SALAM DHR calls on the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the worldwide ...

67 Arab and international NGOs urge the Bahraini authorities to respond to the High Commissioner’s call to release prisoners who are at risk from the Covid-19 pandemic

67 Arab and international human rights organisations – including 18 Tunisian organisations – call on ...

Demanded International human rights bodies to investigate the conditions in Bahrain’s prisons | SALAM DHR: Brothers Mohammed and Ali Fakhrawi are examples of systematic torture in custody

Brothers Mohammed and Ali Fakhrawi first became active in public affairs after their return from ...

Three Bahraini organisations call on the Bahraini authorities to take measures to protect the health of detainees and free all prisoners in light of Coronavirus pandemic

In light of the Coronavirus pandemic sweeping the world, three Bahraini human rights organisations, SALAM ...