Fifteenth: Awareness and educational programs with regional and international academic bodies 70.  In its constant endeavor to strengthen cooperation and exchange experiences with various local, regional and international academic bodies, the NIHR, in coordination with the Supreme Council for Women, hosted a delegation of Johns Hopkins University students during their visit to the Kingdom of Bahrain to review its experience in the advancement of women. A detailed explanation was provided about the functions of the NIHR and its role in promoting and protecting human rights in the Kingdom of Bahrain, as well as its joint cooperation with the Supreme Council for Women to support all possible ways to further enhance women’s enjoyment of all their rights. 71. In the framework of the partnership with the Royal Police Academy, the NIHR presented a lecture on its role in promoting and protecting human rights for the new batch of newly appointed police recruits at the Police Training Institute at the headquarters of the Royal Police Academy. The lecture aims to inform the Academy’s members of the role played by the NIHR in the field of promoting and protecting human rights, in particular, its mandate to receive complaints, provide legal assistance, monitor human rights conditions, and provide participants with practical skills in this field. 72. In the same context, the NIHR has actively contributed to the cooperation program for the College of Law at the Royal University for Women, which is a practical training program for students of the College of Law to acquire skills in the field of human rights, by providing educational lectures and presentations on the role of the NIHR in the field of promoting and protecting human rights. The program extended to eight weeks and addressed the competence of the NIHR in the field of promotion and protection of human rights by explaining the mechanism for receiving complaints and the relevant procedures, and for providing legal assistance and advice, as well as its role in the process of monitoring human rights violations. 73. In the context of activating the memorandum of understanding concluded with the University of Bahrain, the NIHR organized an introductory lecture on the Human Rights Research Fellowship program to academics and students of the College of Law at the University. The Lecture focused on presenting an overview of the Fellowship program and the target group, clarifying its objectives, which aim at developing skills in critical thinking and analysis in the field of human rights. On the sidelines of the lecture, an introductory overview on the role of the NIHR in protecting and promoting human rights in the Kingdom of Bahrain and the competencies entrusted to it under its Establishment Law was presented. 74. Based on its role in disseminating and promoting a culture of human rights across society, the NIHR hosted the students enrolled in the Human Rights Course at the Gulf University, to learn about the NIHR’s role in promoting and protecting human rights in the Kingdom of Bahrain and 84