Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR)

A new report from the Gulf Centre for Human Rights examines the risks journalists in the region face, and the importance of holding those who pursue them accountable.

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights calls attention to the fierce women advocating for progress in the protest arena, and the urgent need to protect their right to peaceful assembly.

Authorities arrested the brother of prominent Iranian-American human rights defender Masih Alinejad, in an effort to stifle her women’s rights activities.

As excessive force threatens protesters in Lebanon, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights calls on authorities to fulfil legal obligations protecting the right to peaceful assembly.

Rights groups call on Iraqi authorities to secure the release of civilian activists and human rights defenders that have been abducted and forcibly disappeared in recent weeks.

Civil society organisations have called upon the UAE government to immediately and unconditionally release human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor, whose life they believe may be at risk following beatings and hunger strikes to protest deplorable and inhumane prison conditions.

The Gulf Centre for Human Rights looks at how the evolving technology could be maliciously used to target vocal women rights defenders in the region.

Rights groups call on Iraqi authorities to investigate protester deaths and uphold the right to freedom of expression and assembly.