BCHR | OBS Annual Report 2013: Violations of the right of NGOs to fund
 

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28 Feb 2013
Bahrain: de facto ban on all foreign funding
In Bahrain, only one human rights NGO – the Bahrain Human Rights Society (BHRS) – is registered and can therefore claim access to foreign funding. Decree-Law No. 21/1989 on associations, social clubs and cultural institutions as well as on youth and sports bodies requires that prior authorisation must be given by the Ministry of Social Development for all foreign funding (Article 20). In recent years, BHRS has been denied access by the authorities to public and private funds, both domestic and foreign. The organisation has challenged these refusals before the courts since 2001, as yet to no avail.
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