time frame of the report in the area of the promotion and protection of human rights in particular. It also included a separate chapter dealing with some of the key human rights issues that dominated during the reporting period, as well as the advisory opinions of the NIHR submitted to the constitutional authorities and its compatibility with the international human rights instruments. 1.34 Accordingly, the NIHR refers the statement of the activities it has undertaken since 2013, including the number of complaints received, the legal aid provided, and its role in the monitoring of the human rights situation, to the annual reports published during the past years, being more detailed and explanatory, to answer the questions raised by the Committee in this regard. 1.35 Since its inception, the NIHR has played a very active role in the promotion of human rights owing to Law Establishing the Institution, which granted the NIHR several competencies, the most prominent of which is disseminating a culture and awareness of human rights through a number of available means, including issuing educational newsletters and publications, organizing a number of workshops and lectures, and concluding a number of memorandums of understanding with civil society institutions, specifically in the field of civil and political rights. 1.36 In the area of issuing publications and newsletters, the NIHR printed a number of international and regional documents related to human rights in both Arabic and English languages to raise public awareness of the rights and freedoms contained therein, thus promoting and Parallel Report by the National Institution for Human Rights of the Kingdom of Bahrain to the Human Rights Committee © 2018 16