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Recommendations:
(A) Seeking to set a timetable for processing and meeting requests related
to housing services that have been in place for five years or more, by
developing partnerships with the private banking and real estate sector
and developing appropriate solutions and alternatives.
(B) Seeking to include the largest number of beneficiaries of housing
requests in the “Mazaya” project with disregard to salary or age of the
beneficiary, provided that the real criterion is the need for a housing
service, considering the changes of life pattern in the community.
(C) Calling upon the competent authorities to study the laws and regulations
in force related to the environment and to make the necessary
amendments to them in a way that adapts to environmental changes and
developments, or to issue a comprehensive and integrated law on the
environment, to provide the necessary protection for environmental
issues of all kinds, whether land or marine, or those related to climate
change.
(D) Renewing the call for the establishment of a public prosecution office for
the environment, whose mission is to initiate criminal proceedings in the
name of the community before courts specialized in environmental
issues of all kinds.
(E) Dealing appropriately with any administrative or legal violations or
abuses issued by natural or legal persons, whether public (official) or
private, that perform acts or refrain from acts required by laws,
regulations, systems and decisions in force related to the protection of
the environment.
(F) Inviting the competent authorities to raise comprehensive and continuous
awareness of the category of fishermen to use safer and more environmentally
friendly methods related to shrimp fishing, in a manner that does not negatively
affect their living income levels.
Parallel Report of the National Institution for Human Rights in the Kingdom of Bahrain submitted to the Committee on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)@2021
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