Rights and a Contemporary Appearance of Racism” organized by the Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in partnership with the Government of the Republic of Turkey. In addition, it participated in the Round Table event on “the Rights of Women and Girls” organized by the Asia Pacific Forum (APF) in Amman, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, as well as in the twenty-third annual meeting of the Asia Pacific Forum and the International Conference on Equality in Hong Kong. 22. Furthermore, the NIHR participated in a training workshop on “Monitoring the role of the media during the elections” in the Sultanate of Oman, organized by the Omani Commission for Human Rights in collaboration with the Arab Network for National Human Rights Institutions. The NIHR also participated in the program on training human rights facilitators of the Asia Pacific Forum in Thailand, and the training course on “International Humanitarian Law” organized by the Bahrain Institute for Political Development in cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross (Kuwait Branch). The NIHR participated as well in the training course on urgent humanitarian issues of refugees, which was organized by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the Gulf Cooperation Council States and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Bahrain. 23. In that context, the NIHR participated, for three consecutive days, in the activities of the National Program for the Elections of 2018, organized by the Bahrain Institute for Political Development, by attending five lectures in a training course entitled “Follow-up and Monitoring Skills of the Electoral Process”. The first lecture was about the legislation governing the electoral process; the second on electoral irregularities and crimes; the third on electoral monitoring skills; the fourth on election campaigning for candidates; and the last lecture was on the preparation of the final report on the electoral process. 24. In order to publicize the Sustainable Development Goals 2030 and the challenges that may face the progress made in the implementation of these Goals, the NIHR organized a workshop on “the Sustainable Development Goals and follow-up indicators”. During this workshop, the Goals and Objectives of Sustainable Development and the central role of national human rights institutions in their realization were reviewed. 25. In order to promote and develop a culture of human rights in the Kingdom of Bahrain for various official and civil society groups, the NIHR participated in the Publications Exhibition, which was held as a side event of the Parliamentary Conference (National Action Charter … Prospects, Sustainable Development, and Peace) organized by the House of Representatives, by displaying a number of its publications. The NIHR also participated in the distribution of its publications on Career Day at the Royal University for Women. 26.  In the area of publications, the NIHR has reprinted a number of international and regional documents related to human rights in both Arabic and English languages. For example, the Paris Principles relating to the status of national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and 40