Human Rights

National legislations

International Treaties and Conventions

  • Law No. ( 22) for 2011 ratifying the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability.
  • Law No. (15) for 2010 to approve the amendment to paragraph (1 ) of Article (20) of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
  • Law No. 10 for 2007 approving the Government of the Kingdom of Bahrain’s accession to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
  • Law No. ( 56 ) for 2006 approving the Government of the Kingdom of Bahrain’s accession to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
  • Law No. (4 ) of 2004 approving the accession of the Kingdom of Bahrain to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocols supplementing.
  • Law No. 19 for 2004 approving the Kingdom of Bahrain’s accession to the Optional Protocols on the involvement of children in armed conflict and on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography attached to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
  • Decree-by-Law No. (5) of 2002 approving Bahrain’s accession to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
  • Decree-by-law No. (12) for 2001 approving the State of Bahrain’s accession to the International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention No.(182) for the year 1999 on the prohibition of the worst forms of child labor and immediate action to eliminate them.
  • Decree No. (11 ) of 2000 , ratifying the ILO Convention No. 111 of 1958 concerning Discrimination in respect of employment and occupation.
  • Decree-by-Law No. (8) for 2000, ratifying the amendment to paragraph (2) of Article (43) of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the General Assembly in November 1989.
  • Decree No. (6 ) for 2000, ratifying the amendment of Article (8) of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination of 1965, to which the State of Bahrain acceded upon the promulgation of Decree-by- Law No. 8 of 1990.
  • Decree-by-Law No. (34) of 1999 amending some provisions of Decree-by-Law No. (4) for the year 1998 to accede to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 10, 1984.
  • Decree-by-Law No. (17) for 1999 approving Bahrain’s accession to the ILO Convention No. 159 of 1983 on Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons)..
  • Decree-by-Law No. (4) for 1998 to accede to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 10, 1984.
  • Decree-by -Law No. (16 ) for 1991 on the State of Bahrain’s accession to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the General Assembly in November 1989.
  • Decree No. (8) for 1990 on Bahrain’s accession to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination in 1965 and to the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid in 1973.
  • Decree-by-Law No. (4) for 1990 on Bahrain’s accession to the Convention on Genocide and Punishment concluded on December 9, 1948.
  • Decree-by-law No. 16 for 1986 approving the State of Bahrain’s accession to the Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions of 1949.
  • Decree-by-Law No. (7) for 1971, approving Bahrain's accession to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 .

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