polling day,” which included: calling for election and nomination stage; registration in voters’ lists and objections stage; receiving candidacy applications, objections thereon, and judicial appeals lodged stage; and electoral propaganda and election silence stage. The Second Section was titled “Observing the parliamentary and municipal elections on polling day”, which included: the pre-polling stage, polling stage, sorting and announcing the results. The Third Section titled “Observing the parliamentary and municipal elections following polling day”, which included: the stage of receiving and adjudicating electoral appeals; and the final part of the report, which included the concluding recommendations of NIHR(14). Eighth: Interacting with international, regional, and national human rights events and days The NIHR was not detached from interacting with international and regional occasions and days related to the promotion of human rights, as it issued during 2019 seventeen statements on a number of international, regional and national days, aiming at introducing those days and occasions and indicating their importance, as follows: Information Occasion/Event International Women’s Day International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination International 21 March 2019 7 April 2019 International Workers’ Day 1 May 2019 World Press Freedom Day 3 May 2019 World Environment Day 5 June 2019 World Day against Trafficking in Persons 30 July 2019 International Day of Democracy 15 September 2019 International Day for Older Persons 1 October 2019 International Day of the Girl Child 11 October 2019 United Nations Day 24 October 2019 World Children’s’ Day 20 November 2019 International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women 25 November 2019 Human Rights Day National 8 March 2019 World Health Day International Day of Disabled Persons Regional Date Arab Human Rights Day 3 December 2019 10 December 2019 16 March 2019 Anniversary of National Action Charter 14 February 2019 Bahraini Women’s Day 1 December 2019 (14) F or the recommendations of the Report on Observing the Parliamentary and Municipal Elections of 2018, see Section Two of this Report entitled: The most notable achievements of the National Institution for Human Rights in the field of promoting human rights during ten years, in Chapter I (The Tenth Anniversary of the Establishment of the National Institution for Human Rights). 75