6 April 2018 – The three weeks of discussion at the UN Human Rights Council’s 37th session have seen a few EU Member States blowing the whistle on the human rights situation in Saudi Arabia, while human rights issues in ...
05 April 2018 – In a parliamentary question published in January 2018, MEP Siôn Simon (S&D) voices concerns over ongoing abuses against migrant workers in Qatar, ahead of the 2022 World Cup. Despite promising reforms announced in 2017, migrants working ...
5 April 2018 – Seven years ago this month, renowned human rights defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja was dragged from his home in Bahrain, tortured, tried in a military court, and sentenced to life in prison for his peaceful role in ...
30 March 2018 – On 24 November 2017, MEP Ana Gomes (S&D) addressed the worrying resumption of military trials against civilians in a parliamentary question to HR/VP Federica Mogherini, as last October 24th marked the beginning of the first trials ...
28 March 2018 – During the 37th session of United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC), the European Union and Member States pushed for serious scrutiny of Bahrain’s human rights abuses by referring the Kingdom as ‘a human rights situation that require ...
20 March 2018 – Today, a British Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Julie Ward wrote to the High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, to express her concerns over the judicial ...
23 February 2018 – This year, Bahrain will hold the elections for the National Assembly – the second to take place in Bahrain since more than 200,000 people took the streets in February 2011 to demand more openness in the ...
