NIHR “issues newsletters, publications, data, and special reports, and uploads such on
its website. The NIHR shall be entitled to address public opinion directly or through any
of the media outlets”.
13. The NIHR has launched the hashtag # Guarantee Your Right, to disseminate the culture of human
rights and raise awareness of the basic freedoms and the services provided by the NIHR to the
public, both citizens and residents on the land of the Kingdom of Bahrain.
14. This aim of this hashtag is to ensure that people are aware of their rights and public freedoms that
are guaranteed to them in the Constitution, national legislation, and regional and international
instruments related to human rights, and to ensure that each individual is a sponsor of his/her
own rights, as knowledge of rights and freedoms is the most effective safeguard for a person to
preserve his/her rights.
Seventh: Ban on afternoon outdoor work Initiative
15. Initiated by the NIHR’s competence in monitoring cases of human rights violations, and submitting
suggestions and initiatives that would improve human rights conditions; and in view of its
competence to directly address public opinion, to preserve workers’ rights to healthy and safe
working conditions, and to ensure that employers respect these rights, the NIHR launched its
initiative on reporting observed violations resulting from the employment of workers outdoors,
exposed to the sun, during the months of July and August, between 12:00 noon and 4:00 in the
afternoon, in violation of Decision No. (3) of 2013 on banning outdoor work at noon time. This
initiative allows everyone to observe violations, determine their location and time, and post them
on social media using the hashtag (# Guarantee Your Right), or contact the NIHR through the
free hotline (80001144), or through the NIHR’s WhatsApp at (17111666). This initiative aims
to increase public awareness on workers’ rights and to educate the community to respect human
rights, so that, it plays, together with the NIHR and the relevant mechanisms, a role in promoting
and protecting human rights(7).
Eighth: Complaints and call center
16. In order for the NIHR to continue developing and updating the mechanisms of communication with
citizens and residents to reach the highest levels of human rights protection and promotion, it has
launched in 2017 the complaints and call center service linked to the free hotline (80001144)
to receive complaints and provide legal assistance. Since its inception, the NIHR has been
receiving complaints through its main switchboard, but this toll-free line was created to make it
easier for individuals to submit their complaints. Since its establishment, the NIHR has received
more than 8,000 phone calls, of which 3,000 calls went through the free line.
(7)
The details of the initiative are presented in the Second subsection of Section Three on the advisory opinions submitted to the government of Chapter II,
of this report.
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