of disability, considering that this category must enjoy a degree of equality with other categories in the enjoyment of various rights, including the right to adequate housing and decent living. 3.9 In line with the SDG 10 on reducing inequality, the Kingdom of Bahrain, in its Voluntary National Report, although it did not address this goal separately, referred to its quest for inclusive development that covers all groups, including individuals who are most in need of development revenue, to ensure justice in order to reduce inequality. This is achieved through supporting the groups in most need of security and solidarity and providing the components of social security through a package of social security systems and measures, including provision of allowances for people with disabilities, unemployment insurance, high-cost allowance, and compensation initiative in return for removing meat subsidy, and reducing electricity and water fees, which guarantees low-income people a decent living, and reducing the percentage of low-income people among those categories. 3.10 Despite the commendable steps taken by the government regarding the promotion of equality for all with regard to the right to an adequate standard of living, NIHR notice the Ministerial Resolution No. (909) of 2015 regarding the Housing System has excluded the elderly from enjoying some of the prescribed housing services. Therefore, the government should reconsider the provisions of the above resolution, and other guarantees that ensure the elderly’s enjoyment of housing services and the provision of adequate housing for them, especially for those who do not have a fixed income. The state must ensure that this group “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 14