Activities

National Institution for Human Rights Organizes Lectures and Training Workshops on the Mechanism for Submitting Human Rights Reports

17 Aug 2021

Based on its role in spreading the culture of human rights among the various groups of society in accordance with national and international standards, and in continuation of the implementation of its strategy and plan of action, the National Institution for Human Rights organized a series of lectures and training workshops via visual communication technology for the participants in the research fellowship program in the field of human rights, presented by a number Specialists in legal affairs and human rights in the Secretariat-General of the NIHR, through which they reviewed the historical development of the emergence of rights and freedoms in the United Nations, the concept of right and freedom and their inclusion in the constitution, in addition to reviewing the

mechanisms concerned with the protection of human rights and their types, international instruments for human rights and the extent of Bahrain’s accession or ratification of them.

Participants were also trained on the mechanism for submitting reports on human rights, and how to prepare proposals related to human rights, as well as providing a number of examples on the education mechanism, whether for national institutions inside or outside the Kingdom of Bahrain.

These lectures come as part of the research fellowship program that the Foundation is organizing, remotely, in the field of human rights, which targets academics, postgraduate students, human rights defenders, and those interested in human rights.