for Environment were presented targeting the public and private
sectors, as well as other lectures aimed at consolidating
environmental concepts, encouraging a change in the consumption
pattern, and adopting the concept of responsible production and
consumption. More than (46) lectures were presented during the
year 2019.
b) Furthermore, the Council conducted a number of awareness
programs for a number of entities, such as Al-Amal Special
Education Institute, the Green Environment Program for the
employees of the Ministry of Interior, the joint program with the
Supreme Council for Women on the role of women and the family
in the preservation of the environment, and the Environmental
Exhibition in cooperation with Gulf Air. In addition, scientific
materials, educational publications, and electronic boards were
prepared and published through various media platforms aiming to
open channels of support of outreach and awareness programs.
(7) Text of recommendation and summary of the competent authority’s
reply to NIHR:
Call upon the competent authorities to raise, on an ongoing basis, the
awareness of anglers on the safer methods for fishing shrimp that preserve
the environment, and at the same time do not negatively affect their
income.
Summary of the Ministry of Works, Municipalities Affairs, and
Urban Planning reply to NIHR:
The Ministry did not provide a reply on this recommendation.
Summary of the Supreme Council for Environment reply to
NIHR:
The Council stated that the substance of the recommendation is not within
its mandate.
Section Two: Human rights and promotion of the values of tolerance and
peaceful coexistence
(1) Text of recommendation and summary of the competent authority’s
reply to NIHR:
Call upon the competent authorities to include the terms “tolerance and
peaceful coexistence between sects and religions” in the provisions of the
Penal Code, and other complementary laws that criminalize the acts that
encroach upon these values.
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