20-27 April 2016 This week, a major theme in the media was regional diplomacy following a visit to Bahrain by the King of Morocco and…
Month: April 2016
The benefits of civil society for Bahrain and for you. Civil society is based on the idea of looking at citizens and all fellow human…
On 21 April, the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office issued its global human rights review. Within this report, a brief section was devoted to progress…
The Bilateral Investment Treaty between the US and Bahrain was signed on 31 May 2001 after two years of negotiations. This was the first significant…
Given all the negative economic reporting from Bahrain and the GCC region over the past year, many could believe that Bahrain’s economy was in steep…
The benefits of civil society for Bahrain and for you. Civil society weakens and dies if it fails to continually bring in new generations of…
A firebomb attack against police in Karbabad on 16 April left one policemen dead and two others seriously wounded. The police were reportedly trying to…
“Local and international observers and human rights organizations continued to view the BICI report as a standard against which to measure the country’s progress on…
7-13 April 2016 The interrelationship between politics and religion has been a key theme once again this week, after the Shura Council struck down…
There are arguably four main political trends in Bahrain: Secular/left-wing; secular/liberal; Shia Islamist and Sunni Islamist. Left-wing societies The left-wing groups have the longest pedigree, going back…