Jeddah, January 31st (BNA) –Ministry of Culture in Bahrain and the Development Islamic Bank in Jeddah agreed to support two projects within the tourist projects of the ministry. The agreement came a day after Minister of Culture, Shaikha Mai Bint Mohammed Al Khalifa was granted the International Tourism Award in the field of creativity from the Arab Tourism Organization. Both sides agreed on supporting the project of the course of Lulu Road Read more [...]

On Wednesday afternoon in the British Parliament, near the end of question time for British Prime Minister David Cameron, a short though incredibly revealing exchange occurred between Cameron and Respect Party MP George Galloway. Whatever one's preexisting views might be of either of these two polarizing figures is entirely irrelevant to the points and facts raised here about this incident.Galloway stood to ask Cameron about a seeming contradiction in the policy of the British government (one Read more [...]

Several policemen were injured when a home-made bomb exploded at a roundabout west of the Bahraini capital Manama on Wednesday, the prime minister was quoted as saying. Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman al-Khalifa said the explosion happened at Budaiya Highway “leaving a number of policemen injured whilst on duty”, the official Bahrain News Agency reported late on Wednesday. A Ministry of Interior message on Twitter put the number of wounded at three Read more [...]

FIDH and the BCHR have advocated tirelessly to mobilize a mainly unresponsive European Union. Last December, the FIDH and Marietje Schaake, Member of the European Parliament, organised a roundtable on how to step-up the EU’s response to ongoing human rights violations. At the same time, FIDH organised a series of meetings for Bahraini human rights defenders with key actors from across the EU institutions, laying down a series of recommendations and urging for a strong EU response. Following this Read more [...]