Promoting Solidarity and Joint Action to Address Human Rights Challenges

Annual Report 2025

Executive Summary

• Produced seven reports (including quarterly tracking of restrictions on peaceful assembly in Bahrain), and advanced two major works-in-progress: a large report on Kuwait’s citizenship stripping crisis and a renewed parliamentary monitoring project on Bahrain’s National Assembly.
• Engaged in three flagship campaigns amplified community voices and advanced reform demands: “My Mother, My Nationality” (gender-discriminatory nationality laws), “#ParticipationMatters” (political participation and democratic accountability) and Know Your Rights (legal protection while engaging in peaceful assembly in Bahrain).
• Strengthened international and UK-facing advocacy: delegations to the 59th and 60th UN Human Rights Council sessions and the Global Refugee Forum, interventions in multiple UN events, and sustained engagement with MPs and UK departments, including the FCDO and Department for Business and Trade.
• Expanded public outreach through webinars and podcasts, supporting informed civic engagement and international accountability.
• Placed survivors at the centre of its work, supporting victims of arbitrary arrest, torture and ill-treatment linked to peaceful protest in Bahrain, and victims of Kuwait’s mass citizenship stripping campaign.
• Preparing two of its largest, most detailed reports ever composed for 2026. The first is an in-depth exploration of Kuwait’s mass citizenship stripping campaign, second is a continuation of SALAM DHR’s analysis of Bahrain’s legislative branch, the National Assembly.