Concluding Recommendations:
First: Role of Human Rights Advocates in the Field of Promoting and Protecting Human Rights
1. Call for enacting new legislation which regulates the activities of the human rights defenders, and
tackles the important matters related to the rights and obligations of those concerned, their scope of
work, and the legal guarantees decided for them.
2. The various media institutions in the Kingdom and civil society organizations shall shoulder
an educational role explaining the role of human rights advocates in the field of promoting and
protecting human rights, in addition to educating the advocates themselves about all that relates to
their work.
3. Endeavor to create bridges of cooperation and partnership grounded in the unity of purpose in the
field of promoting and protecting human rights between the public constitutional authorities in the
Kingdom, and the national mechanisms concerned with human rights and the advocates of human
rights, with a view to creating an integrated system in the field of promotion and protection.
4. Include in the syllabi of citizenship and human rights in the various academic stages the concept of
human rights advocacy and the role of advocates in the field of promoting and protecting human
rights in the national system.
Second: Rights of Expatriate Workers
1. Accession to the International Labour Organization Conventions No. (87) of 1988 concerning the
trade unions freedom and protecting the right to organize, and the International Labour Organization
Conventions No. (98) of 1988 concerning applying the principles of the right to organize and
collective bargaining.
2. Call for adopting strict legal measures vis-à-vis business owners, companies and institutions which
do not comply with the minimum level of conditions which must be met in the housing of expatriate
workers.
3. Call for enacting a special law that tackles the affairs of household workers and the recruitment
offices, including a statement of the rights and obligations of the concerned parties.
Third: Right to Health
1. Study the requirements of the market as relates to the field of health whereby the number of
scholarships allocated for the study of medicine is increased in the sensitive specializations where
there is a dearth in the health sector.
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