National assessment Despite the challenges facing the world and their effects on the Kingdom of Bahrain during the years (2020-2021) due to the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Kingdom was able to take vigorous steps towards promoting human rights principles in general, and guaranteeing human rights in The health and education sectors in particular. The Kingdom also strove to ensure that the primary care groups, including children, people with disabilities and the elderly, are not affected and that their established rights infringed upon. Taking upon itself the optimal and full implementation of the recommendations of the World Health Organization related to the preventive (precautionary) and curative (pharmacological) issues, the Kingdom established specialized centers to treat patients infected with the virus, and provided approved vaccines, in a fair and free manner, for citizens and residents alike without discrimination. The repercussions of the spread of the novel corona virus (Covid-19) were not limited to the abstract of the human rights aspect only, but rather had an impact on the economic aspect and related to the relevant sustainable development goals (2030), as the Kingdom took serious steps to reduce the economic repercussions of the pandemic and ensure that this is not affected by basic human rights, especially those related to the right of individuals to enjoy an adequate standard of living. In order to achieve this, Decree-Law No. (22) of 2021 promulgating the implementation law in civil and commercial matters came to constitute an important development towards achieving a fair balance between the interests of the creditor and the debtor, by creating legal guarantees that achieve the interests of both parties, without resorting to arrest and imprisonment of the debtor to fulfill a debt Civil, as a kind of physical coercion to compel a person to implement and pay, which constitutes effective compliance with the provisions of Article (11) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which the Kingdom of Bahrain acceded under Law No. (56) of 2006. In this sense, the NIHR supports the ministerial decisions taken regarding wage protection, in particular Resolution No. (68) of 2019 regarding the wage protection system as a system that obliges the employer in the private sector to pay workers’ wages through banks and financial institutions licensed by the Central Bank of Bahrain according to specific dates, and Resolution No. (22) of 2021 regarding the stages of implementing the wage protection system, according to which it allows the application of the system within stages according to the number of workers in a single facility and within a period not exceeding January 2022. 14

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