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in Geneva, said it was imperative for Bahrain to do more to protect the rights of migrant workers, domestic workers and those facing travel bans and protection of minority rights in Bahrain, especially Jews, Baháʼís, and Christians. The Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society and the Gulf European Center for Human Rights joined international groups in a protest against the Iranian regime and its constant meddling in the affairs of Bahrain, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon and he protested with activists outside the United Nations Human Rights Council, in Geneva on 21 May 2012.
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The society and Gulf European Center of Human Rights with a number of Bahraini human rights organizations established the Bahrain Human Rights Network and they launched a campaign for a personal status law for Bahraini Shiite Women, Conjugated with Human Rights Council meeting on 19 September 2012 to
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In 2012, society's call to end expat travel bans in Bahrain and to protect domestic workers' rights in Bahrain. On 21 May 2012, Bahrain submitted its Universal Periodic Review during the 13th session of the UN's Human Rights Council, Geneva. The society's secretary-general, Faisal Fulad, who was also
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The society has sought to support women's rights activists' campaign for the introduction of a personal status law to protect women in divorce and child custody. In association with the National Coalition to Stop Violence Against Women, the society launched the Respect Movement, a petition in support
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responded "We did not do anything that was against religion especially that Islam is a religion of tolerance and compassion. The public tribute is not an unhealthy innovation as some people have said, but a compassionate attitude that helps people appreciate how tolerant and inclusive Islam is,
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In June 2012, the Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society and Representatives Council of Bahrain condemned in the strongest terms the Iraqi regime's serious violations of human rights at Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty, as a result of the pressure and blatant interference of the Iranian regime.
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of the Personal Status Law. The second part of the Respect Movement's agenda is a petition for laws to protect housemaids, who are not currently protected by Bahrain's labour laws.
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The Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society's defence of leftist writer, Sameera Rajab, also brought the centre into conflict with Islamists: in 2004 the
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as an 'American general' for his tacit support of the US invasion. The society took a lead in the arguments that ensued with
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This article is about the Bahraini women's rights organization. For the international human rights organization, see
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particularly that our religion is being relentlessly savaged by anti-Muslims in several countries."
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criticised the laying of a wreath as against religious values. The society's
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organization established in November 2004 which , and to fight for
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The organisation was described to be "government supported" by a
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discuss the recommendations of Bahrain Human Rights.
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over the right of journalists to criticise clerics.
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