The European Centre for Democracy and Human Rights (ECDHR) is a non-profit organisation based in Brussels (BE) and registered in Dublin (IR). It was created in January 2015.

The European Centre for Democracy and Human Rights is the European representation of a coalition of other like-minded NGOs – which includes the Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain – ADHRB (Washington DC, USA), the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights – BCHR (Copenhagen, DK), the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy – BIRD (London, UK) – seeking to promote human rights and democracy in the Gulf region with a particular focus on Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.

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Cybersecurity in the UAE

During the 21st century, and particularly during the 2010s, the issue of cybersecurity has become [...]

Bahraini prisoners amid COVID-19 outbreak

Political Prisoners amid Covid-19 outbreak On 6 April 2020, ECDHR along with 21 human rights [...]

GCC Countries and Migrant Workers: Background Facts

The presence of migrant workers in the member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), [...]

GCC and the COVID-19 Crisis

   “No.4 | The Repatriation of GCC Nationals and Concluding Remarks”  The COVID-19 crisis has [...]

GCC and the COVID-19 Crisis

No. 3| Consequences of the widespread of coronavirus in the GCC countries From Oman to [...]

Bahrain: Free Imprisoned Rights Defenders and Opposition Activists

The European Centre for Democracy and Human Rights, along with 19 other rights groups, urges [...]

GCC and the COVID-19 Crisis

                                       No. 2| COVID19 and the GCC countries’ ability to cope: what the crisis reveals    [...]

Belgium: Foreign Affairs Minister answers to a Parliamentary Question on Bahrain

Answer to Hugues Bayet’s Oral Questions on the situation of Human Rights in Bahrain, published [...]

GCC and the COVID-19 Crisis

No. 1|  Diseases in the Middle East and their cause of outbreaks Past outbreaks in [...]

“My sister refused to give up on making life better for women in Saudi Arabia” – Linda AlHathloul

Not even a fortnight ago, on International Women’s Day, a group of UN experts urged [...]

Bahrain: MEPs Send Letters raising concerns over the cases of Mohammed Ramadhan and Hussain Moosa

On 6 March 2020, two Joint Letters on Death Sentence of Mohamed Ramadhan and Hussain [...]

Bahrain: Updates on European Parliamentary Questions

Since the beginning of the 9th European Parliament legislature, there have been four parliamentary questions [...]

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