visual presentations on “The Role of the National Institution for Human Rights in the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights”. The program is twenty-four weeks long; addresses the competencies of the NIHR in the field of promoting and protecting human rights by explaining the mechanism for receiving complaints and the following procedures, providing legal assistance and advice, in addition to monitoring of human rights violations. The program sheds light on Sustainable Development Goals (2030), the strategy and action plan of the NIHR for the years (2019-2021), and the international, national, and regional mechanisms for the promotion and protection of human rights. 48. The NIHR, in cooperation with the College of Law at the University of Bahrain, organized a round table event for the Legal Clinic and Human Rights Program, at the Training Center in the NIHR’s headquarters. A number of students who are registered in this Program attended the round table, in addition to a number of officials of the General Secretariat and the University supervisors of the Program. During the event, the trainees at the NIHR gave detailed presentations on the topics they had their training on at the NIHR. The presentations included practical applications of debate skills and the exchange of ideas and relevant information, in addition to the role of the NIHR in protecting human rights. This application included many discussions between students and attendees about the scientific material presented. 49. In this regard, the NIHR held a lecture on “The Right to Privacy” in cooperation with the Legal Clinic and Human Rights Center at the College of Law at the University of Bahrain, as part of its training plan comprising holding seminars, events and training programs related to the promotion and protection of human rights, which falls within its mandate and aims to disseminate the culture of human rights in the community. The lecture, which was attended by a number of law enforcement officials, public sector employees, graduate students, and those interested in human rights, addressed a number of focus areas, particularly: the right to privacy and the prescribed restrictions, scope of right and its legal basis, and an explanation of the Personal Data Protection Law No. (30) of 2018. Tenth: Building the capacities of the employees of the National Institution for Human Rights 50. Given its role in capacity building and preparing qualified national personnel specialized in the field of human rights, the NIHR launched its three-week training program on the international mechanisms for the protection of human rights (in English), in cooperation with the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions (APF). This training program activates the joint cooperation with the APF in the field of capacity building and technical support, which would promote and protect human rights, and introduce the fundamental international human rights conventions and mechanisms and how to address them. 78