Second Annual Report of the National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) 2014 - Kingdom of Bahrain 15. NIHR invites the Government to expediently fulfill its international obligations made before the Human Rights Council during its Universal Periodic Review process (UPR). The Government indicated that the recommendations addressed to it concerning ratification of the International Convention for the Protection of Persons from Enforced Disappearances are supported fully by the Government90. Therefore, the ratification of the International Convention complements the efforts made for accession to or ratification of the international human rights instruments adopted by the United Nations. In addition, NIHR calls for the Government’s cooperation with the special procedures generated by the Human Rights Council by considering and allowing the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance to visit the Kingdom. 90 See the Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (Bahrain) submitted to the Human Rights Council, which includes views on the conclusions, recommendations, voluntary commitments and replies presented by the review State under Page (5.6) - Document number: (A / HRC / 21/6 / Add. 1 / Rev.1). 80

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