Bahrain

SALAM for Democracy and Human Rights (SALAM DHR)

SALAM for Democracy and Human Rights (SALAM DHR) is an NGO that endeavors to preserve universal principles of dignity and respect by shielding democracy and human rights. SALAM DHR conducts monitoring and analysis, produces reports, develops recommendations on policy and legislation, organizes advocacy campaigns, conducts trainings, and builds effective coalitions. SALAM DHR is actively involved in international cooperation for human rights and democracy, including the production of alternative reports on key human rights topics, coordinating coalitions, lobbying for reform of flawed institutions, and articulating NGO positions at the UN Human Rights Council, the European Parliament, and various domestic bodies.

For example, in the past three years, SALAM DHR has conducted the following activities and campaigns to abolish the death penalty:

1) Publishing reports on death penalty in Bahrain in regular basis
2) Issuing joint statements on death penalty in Bahrain in different occasions
3) Recently signed a joint open appeal letter to King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Kingdom of Bahrain to commute the death sentences in Bahrain
4) We are in direct contact with OHCHR, The Special Rapporteur and working groups on extrajudicial killing, and Human Rights Council member to update them in all issues related to death penalty in Bahrain
5) Engaged in sides events and delivered oral intervention on death penalty in Human Rights Council sessions
6) Lobbying for the abolition of the death sentence in Bahrain and the Middle East on the local, regional and international level
7) Raising awareness against the use of the Death Penalty in the Media.

Date founded

2015

Structure type

NGO