special curriculum for education on citizenship and human rights for all school levels, from primary education to secondary education, in all public and private schools. 5.7 The Ministry of Education launched the Citizenship and Human Rights Promoting Schools Project, which aims at spreading citizenship and human rights principles through curricula that include multiple values, concepts and skills, focusing on belonging, loyalty, tolerance, volunteer work, moderation, dialogue, democracy, a culture of acceptance of diversity, pluralism within the framework of unity, crisis management, and sustaining peace, while noting that this project has been praised by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). 5.8 The NIHR realizes the importance of paying more attention to the category of teachers (educators) by increasing the academic content of their studies at the university and making human rights courses among the requirement courses for them, with a deep focus on everything related to the rights of the child in the educational aspect, and linking them with the educational curricula, with the knowledge aspect given priority over the theoretical aspect. The NIHR can also contribute positively and influentially to the promotion and development of a culture of human rights, through the establishment of specialized training programs in issues related to human rights for educators. 5.9 The process of digital empowerment in education in the schools of the Kingdom of Bahrain began after the success of His Majesty King Hamad’s project for the schools of the future. This pioneering project aims to enable students, educators, and workers in the educational sectors to prepare and train continuously to give them the ability to employ information and communication technology in education, to build national competencies capable of producing digital educational content, and to graduate generations capable of creativity, innovation and leadership in this field. 5.10 In view of the exceptional circumstances of the spread of the Covid-19, and the subsequent consequences that directly affected all human rights, including the right to education, and from the first moment in which the Kingdom of Bahrain decided, during the month of March 2020, to suspend the attendance of students in public and private schools, In kindergartens and higher education institutions, the competent authorities took a number of urgent measures to ensure the sustainability of education, by activating the distance learning system in all government schools, activating the digital content in the educational portal designated for students, which contained approximately (372) courses, many electronic educational enrichments, and previous exam questions with model answers to them. 5.11 In addition, the competent authorities formed (45) working teams to implement the new model lessons that are uploaded daily to the digital educational content for the various educational levels, with the publication of many discussion panels, 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 17