• G
ive additional attention to the training aspect of the organizers of the polling and counting
process in the electoral centers, along with issuing a code of conduct to regulate their work,
which includes that they must refrain from expressing their opinion, explicitly or implicitly, or
promoting one of the candidates, or interfering in the choices of the voter during the ballot.
The neutrality and independence of the organizers at the polling and counting centers reflects
the integrity of the entire electoral process.
• C
all for creating a clearer, strict, and seamless mechanism that secures the smooth entry of
veiled women into the polling centers, ensures that their faces match the ones in their identity
documents, and takes into account their privacy.
• A
dvocate for giving greater attention to civil society institutions and human rights defenders
concerned with monitoring the electoral process by providing designated observation locations
in all polling and counting centers, in close proximity to the polling and counting committees,
so that the observers can readily monitor and observe all aspects of the electoral process on
polling day up until counting the ballots and announcing the final results.
• G
ive more attention, by the Supreme Committee for General Supervision of the Soundness of
Elections, to the ongoing media coverage of the electoral process through prompt and continuous
updating of the information, data, and statistics posted on its website and electronic accounts,
including the decisions and judicial rulings pertaining to electoral objections and appeals. This
will become the source of information and database for professionals, researchers, academia,
and the public.
• O
n-going follow up by the chairs of the provincial and public electoral centers and their staff,
to verify the sufficiency of the remaining ballot papers to ensure that they do not run out, which
influences the flow of the electoral process, so as no voter misses his/her right to vote.
• C
ontinue the notable efforts in raising awareness of the electoral process by the Ministry of
Information Affairs, using infographics to show all stages of the electoral process, as well as the
rights and duties of voters and candidates, as infografics have a clear impact in promoting the
concepts of the electoral process and delivering such in a simplified form, easy to understand
by all.
C. Parallel Reports:
8. The NIHR has been keen to attend, and be represented in, local, regional and international
forums pertaining to its work and mandate through its interaction with the United Nations human
rights mechanisms and submitting its parallel report to the Committee Against Torture (CAT). The
Parallel Report consists of five main focus areas in which the NIHR’s role in following up the
State’s implementation of the recommendations and observations of the committee is exemplified.
The first focus area addresses the legislative measures on the implementation of the Convention
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