4. With reference to the provisions of Law No. 26 of 2014, amended by the Decree Law No. 20 of 2016, it is noted that it granted NIHR a broad mandate in the field of human rights, through Article 2, which provides that “An independent institution called the “National Institution for Human Rights” shall be established. The institution shall be in charge of promoting, developing, and safeguarding human rights, fostering human rights values, raising awareness on human rights, and ensuring the exercise of human rights. NIHR shall have a corporate personality that is financially and administratively independent, and shall conduct its mandates freely, objectively, and with complete independence”. 5. Article 12 of the said Law grants NIHR, to fulfill its objectives, the freedom to comment on any any human rights issue and to address any human rights cases, as it deems appropriate. NIHR has the following powers: a. T  o participate in the production and implementation of a national plan for the promotion and protection of Human Rights in the Kingdom. b. To Study legislation and regulations enforced in the Kingdom which come under the human rights areas together with recommending amendments it deems fit in this respect particularly those consistent with such legislations and the Kingdom’s international obligations in the human rights field. The Institution shall be empowered to recommend issuing new legislation related to human rights. c. To study the conformity of legislation and organization of regional and international treaties related to human right, submit proposals and recommendations to concerned authorities in any matter that reinforces and protect human rights, support and develop to a better level including recommendations to join regional and international conventions and treaties concerned with human rights. 9