Meeting

NIHR’s Committee on Civil and Political Rights convenes its 4th Regular Meeting

28 Sep 2017

The National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR)’s Committee on Civil and Political Rights convened its 4th regular meeting under the chairpersonship of Dr. Badr Mohamed Adel and membership of Mr. Ahmed Mahdi Al-Haddad and Mrs. Widad Ridha Mousawi.

The Committee discussed a number of themes referred to it by the Council of Representatives and discussed that they require further study in order to ascertain their compatibility with national legislation and international human rights standards.

In addition, the Committee members, within the framework of the Committee’s terms of reference, discussed the development of a vision for the issuance of a guide for the upcoming parliamentary and municipal elections scheduled for 2018, in order to promote and protect the right to vote and run , being one of the political rights stipulated by the Constitution of the Kingdom of Bahrain, and raise the public awareness of this inherent right.