Second Annual Report of the National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) 2014 - Kingdom of Bahrain • The need to reinstate citizenship to those who were deprived of it (31 citizens), under Article 11 of the Bahraini Citizenship Act of 1963, as amended, which authorizes the King to reinstate the Bahraini citizenship to those who have lost it, under the provisions of the law. FREEDOM OF OPINION AND RIGHT TO EXPRESSION • Urging the Supreme Authority for Information and Communication to expedite the preparation of a draft national plan for information and communication, which is based on promotion of common national values and adopting a fair, balanced and professional media policy. • Allowing all licensed political societies of various directions greater use of television and radio transmission and printed media, in line with the recommendations of the report of Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry. • Urging the Government to limit the censorship and restrictions on the media outlets, including removing the censorship imposed on the political societies in releasing their own publications. • Considering and allowing the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression of the Human Rights Council to visit the Kingdom. RIGHT TO PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY • The need for law enforcement agencies to protect all marches, sit-ins and rallies, especially if such right is not accompanied by any manifestation of violence or breach of security and public safety. • Providing adequate training programs for law enforcement agencies, particularly those entrusted with the protection of peaceful gatherings, including training on the gradual use of means of dispersing gatherings if they are contrary to the law, how to manage the crowds and participants in those gatherings, implementing a system to record and monitor the ammunition used for dispersing gatherings, and a system for communication records in order to monitor operation orders and those responsible for these operations and the executing officers. This will facilitate identifying liability for the violation, and non-infringement on the rights of others. • Urging civil society organizations to deepen the understanding of the right to peaceful assembly, raise the awareness of the participants and organizers of peaceful gatherings about the legal aspects and violations that might be committed by the participants and their implications, and to assume an active role in promoting awareness of the importance of this right, its exercise and its envisaged objectives in a peaceful context as a civilized form of democratic practice, announcing the end of the assembly formally, and inviting the participants to disperse. • Law enforcement agencies need to protect and facilitate the access of journalists and observers to the peaceful gatherings locations in order to cover the events and monitor the events of these gatherings. • Considering and allowing the Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association of the Human Rights Council to visit the Kingdom THE RIGHT TO ORGANIZE • Urging the Government to Cancel Resolution No. 31 of 2013 adding a new article, i.e. Article 3 bis, to the Resolution No. 4 of 2005 on the rules of political associations’ communication with foreign political parties or associations. THE RIGHT TO AN ADEQUATE STANDARD OF LIVING • Urging the Government to develop an integrated national strategy for sustainable water, which includes a number of fundamental objectives, such as integrated water institutional 20