1.16 One of the most prominent achievements of NIHR in the field of promoting the right to equality and non-discrimination and combating racism and xenophobia is conducting series of awareness lectures on its competencies and its complaint filing mechanism within the comprehensive awareness program in the field of human rights for expatriate workers in a number of foreign clubs and embassies in the Kingdom, e.g. Kerala Club, Nepali Club, Sudanese Club, Philippine Embassy, Rotary Club of Justice and St. Peters Church. The same lecture was presented to a number of representatives of foreign embassies in the Kingdom of Bahrain. This initiative seeks to enhance NIHR work in the field of human rights protection, especially the rights of expatriate workers, by building bridges of communication with various foreign communities in the Kingdom of Bahrain. 1.17 It is worth noting that the rate of female participation in the various activities of the training institution during the years (2009-2022) amounted to (54%) of the total participants, while the percentage of male participation amounted to (46%). “Additional Information” Parallel Report of the National Institution for Human Rights in the Kingdom of Bahrain to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) © 2022 23