Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR)

As the death toll climbs, rights groups call on Iraqi authorities to cease the use of excessive force, and uphold the peoples’ right to peacefully demonstrate.

An international mission comprised of 17 international organizations underscores its concern regarding the lack of guarantees offered by the Mexican state to solve the country’s grave freedom of expression crisis and the state’s failure to recognize the seriousness of the problem.

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.