Shedding blood on the issue: Saudi Arabia’s unflinching approach to the death penalty

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Fawzia Abdulla Yusuf Zainal, Speaker of the Council of Representatives of Bahrain, at the AFET Committee
European Union’s AFET Committee Meeting: willful ignorance or flat out lies on the human rights situation in Bahrain

  Introduction   On 12th of May 2022, the European Centre of Democracy and Human [...]

War crimes in Yemen: a long-overdue call for accountability

Introduction Global discussion has been redirected dramatically in recent months towards the conflict currently taking [...]

Not All That Glitters Is Gold: The Gulf Interference with the EU Democratic Processes

By ECDHR Staff, 13 May 2022   Introduction Over the past decade, the European Union [...]

World Press Freedom Day

An infography on the state of press freedom in the world as well as in [...]

World Day for Safety and Health at Work

28th April 2022 In celebration of the World Day for Safety and Health at Work [...]

The Status of Kuwait’s Stateless Bidoon

In November 2014, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees launched the Campaign to End [...]

International Day of Conscience

A short infography for the international day of conscience, April 5th. [...]

Kuwait: behind the façade of International and Human Rights Commitments, the use of Torture has to end.

Stateless Arabs, known as bidoons, protest to demand rights in Jahra City, 50 kms of [...]

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: EU-Gulf Energy Partnership Risks Overshadowing Human Rights

By ECDHR Staff, 31st March 2022 On March 22nd, the European Committee on Foreign Affairs [...]

The Plight of Yemeni Workers in Saudi Arabia

By ECDHR Staff, 28 March 2022 When the Yemeni Civil War started in 2014, two [...]

International Day for the Right to the Truth concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims

24th March 2022 As the world celebrates the International Day for the Right to the [...]

The EU-Saudi Dialogue: placing human rights at the centre of the discourse

By ECDHR Staff,  21 March 2022 Saudi Arabia has been restricting freedom of expression further [...]

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