Meeting

The National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR)’s Committee on General Rights and Freedoms convened its 16^th teleconference meeting under the chairpersonship of
Dr. Bader Mohamed Adel and membership of Mr. Ahmed Mahdi Alhaddad and
Mrs. Wedad Radhi Almoosawi. The Committee discussed the need to develop a legal concept aimed at urging the concerned parties, each in their specialty, especially the legislative authority, to cooperate and act to raise the age of child employment stipulated in the Labor Law to be equal to that stipulated in the Bahraini Child Law and the UN Convention in the Rights of the Child, in light of the conclusion mentioned in the Committee’s report on child labor, which has been prepared in light of the US Department of Labor.

During the meeting, the Committee looked at the measures taken on its previous resolutions and recommendations and continued its discussions on what the NIHR can do to activate its oversight role to verify access to various human rights in places designated for workers housing, where the Committee ended up holding a videoconference meeting with the concerned parties in the relevant authorities in this area to shed light on the reality of workers housing, and urged those concerned parties and employers to adhere to the standards and requirements that must be met in those housing and act to develop appropriate solutions to eliminate this problem.

On the other hand, the Committee approved the proposal prepared by the NIHR Secretariat-General to hold an electronic event on the reality of children with disabilities, within the proposed round table events that the NIHR intends to hold remotely under the current conditions and in line with the future schools project initiated by His Majesty the King of the State.