Law Number (56) of 2006, and International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in
accordance with law Number (10) of 2007, International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Racial Discrimination in accordance with decree No. (8) of 1990, Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in accordance with Decree-law Number (5) of 2002.
6. Moreover, the Kingdom acceded to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment in accordance with the Decree-Law Number (4) of 1998, and in
accordance with the Decree-Law Number (16) of 1991 it acceded to the United Nations Convention
on the Rights of the Child, and finally the Kingdom ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons
with Disabilities in accordance with Law Number (22) of 2011, and the Kingdom has not ratified
or acceded to date to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant
Workers which was adopted by the United Nations on 18 December 1990, and the International
Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, which was adopted by
the UN General Assembly on 20 December 2006.
7. While acceding to or ratifying the basic human rights international conventions necessitates for the
signatory states an obligation to submit tentative or regular reports to the bodies (committees) of the
conventions in the United Nations which are responsible for monitoring the extent of the progress
achieved by those states in implementing their provisions, the Kingdom of Bahrain has fulfilled its
contractual obligation sin submitting its preliminary report concerning the International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights, and the regular reports concerning Convention against Torture and
other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
8. Within the framework of the National Institution building bridges of cooperation with academic
quarters operating in the human rights field, it signed two memoranda of understanding with the
Royal Police Academy and the Human Rights Institute of Lyon in France, such to expand future
cooperation with those quarters in all that relates to the human rights field.
9. In the domain of partnership with concerned local, regional and international quarters, the National
Institution has held consultative encounters and meetings with a number of ambassadors and
diplomats accredited in the Kingdom of Bahrain, and also with the international organizations
and bodies concerned with human rights affairs, in addition to a set of regional and international
expertise operating in the human rights field, where those meetings discussed a number of
topics, most prominently, the establishment of the National Institution for Human Rights, its
legal framework, and its role in the field of promoting and protecting human rights, in addition
to the role of those institutions and their activities in the domain related to human rights, and
means for bolstering joint support and cooperation between the two parties, and the readiness of
the National Institution to offer its experience in the field of training in human rights cases and
building the capacity of the affiliates and personnel of those institutions insofar as the various
international human rights conventions and the arising obligations of the Kingdom of Bahrain, and
the international mechanisms related to the relevant human rights council
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