114.174
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
End the practice of revoking citizenship from individuals
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Statelessness and the right to nationality
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
114.158
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Increase the number of women in political and public life at all levels and in all areas and promote women in leadership positions and ensure that they are granted opportunities in the higher education system
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Right to education
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
114.13
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Guarantee the fight against impunity, ensuring that all those persons found guilty are brought to justice, in the context of allegations of the use of torture to obtain confessions from detainees
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Impunity
- Justice
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
114.129
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Continue making progress on its reform agenda and to become a role model for the region, including through strengthening the independence, effectiveness and transparency of its oversight bodies, and cooperating with the United Nations system
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 2 - Continuing action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- Technical assistance and cooperation
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
114.128
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Focus on strengthening the legal framework, the institutions and the judiciary to guarantee an independent judicial system and the right to fair trial guaranteed by articles 9 and 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- Justice
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
114.127
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that all aspects of criminal procedure are in line with accepted international standards
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- General
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
114.126
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that the oversight institutions established following the recommendations of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry are fully impartial and independent in order for them to effectively carry out their work
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
114.123
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Remove restrictive limitations on the establishment of political parties or membership therein, and cease the dissolution by law of opposition political societies
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
114.122
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Respect and protect the right of all groups and individuals to participate in legitimate political activities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
114.12
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Finalize and enact the new media law with the meaningful involvement of all stakeholders, providing for a truly independent regulatory body
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- CP rights - general
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
114.119
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Adopt appropriate measures to ensure the protection of human rights defenders, journalists and members of the political opposition from acts of aggression and intimidation and abstain from taking any restrictive measures or reprisals against human rights defenders, notably those who cooperate with the Human Rights Council
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Human rights defenders
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
114.116
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Reduce restrictions on peaceful assembly and association, allow individuals to participate freely in independent political societies, consistent with the Constitution and national action charter, and cease unwarranted legal action against Wefaq and Wa’ad for engaging in protected activities
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
114.115
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Respect the legitimate rights of all its citizens to freedom of assembly, expression and participation in political societies
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
114.113
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement relevant legislation for the full exercise of the right to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
114.112
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Immediately and unconditionally release all prisoners of conscience imprisoned only for exercising their right to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
114.11
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Modify the legislation to repeal criminal responsibility for activities that fall within the legitimate exercise of the freedom of expression, particularly on the Internet and Twitter
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
114.109
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Take measures to guarantee the exercise of the right to freedom of association and peaceful assembly and to promote and facilitate the activities of NGOs
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
114.105
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Amend the penal code and the press law to remove criminal penalties for alleged libel and insult offences, as accepted by Bahrain during its last universal periodic review
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- UPR process
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
114.104
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Remove undue restrictions on the online publication of news media, and the licencing restrictions on media organizations and individuals seeking to practise journalism
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
114.102
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Release all persons detained solely for the exercise of their right to freedom of expression or their right to peaceful assembly and repeal all legislative provisions criminalizing the exercise of these rights
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
114.101
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Protect the rights to freedom of association and assembly in accordance with its international obligations, notably those under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and cease the dissolution of political parties and civil society organizations
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- CP rights - general
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- International instruments
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
114.1
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Release as soon as possible all individuals, including human rights defenders, having been imprisoned solely due to the exercise of their fundamental rights of expression and assembly
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Human rights defenders
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
114.99
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Rescind impediments to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
114.97
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Avoid the intimidation and harassment of human rights defenders, journalists and civil society organizations, lifting the restrictions imposed on them and allowing them to freely exercise their rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Civil society
- Freedom of association and peaceful assembly
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Freedom of the press
- Human rights defenders
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
114.94
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure that all allegations of enforced disappearances, torture or any other form of ill-treatment are independently, promptly and thoroughly investigated, and perpetrators are brought to justice in accordance with international rule of law standards
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Enforced disappearances
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
114.88
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Implement a national strategy to tackle the trafficking of women and girls, while building on its excellent work to ensure the effective protection of all workers, including migrant workers, against discrimination, and to ratify the 2014 protocol to the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 of the International Labour Organization
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Labour rights
- Migrants
- Rights of the Child
- Trafficking
- Women's rights
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
114.87
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Promptly carry out an in-depth investigation into all allegations of torture and ill-treatment, such as the case of the three persons executed in January 2017, and bring those responsible to justice
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Impunity
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
114.83
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Ensure the independence, impartiality and effectiveness of the Special Investigations Unit and other relevant human rights institutions in investigating all allegations of torture and other ill-treatment, unlawful killings and deaths in custody
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Human rights violations by state agents
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
114.82
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Criminalize torture in its legislation and establish a national preventive mechanism for torture
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 5 - Specific action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Detention
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019
114.81
- Cycle
- Cycle 3 (2017 - 2021)
- Session
- 27 - May 2017
- State under Review
- Recommendation
Further implement measures on the protection of victims of mistreatment and torture and on the prosecution of perpetrators
- Recommending State
- Action Category
- 4 - General action
- Response
- Supported
- Issues
- Justice
- Torture and other CID treatment
- Date added
- Sep 26, 2019