SDGs are integrated, indivisible, and global in nature, and recognizes the different capacities and national levels, and respects national policies and priorities. This Plan of Action is built on the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which was adopted in 2000, and had led development work over the past fifteen years. 16. The National Institution commends the National Plan for the Advancement of Bahraini Women, adopted by the Supreme Council for Women, for the years (2013-2022). The National Plan includes five themes, which seek to ensure family stability in the context of family bonds, empower women’s ability and qualification to enhance their competitive contribution in the path of development, which is based on the principle of equality opportunities, and integrate women’s needs in development to secure opportunities for excellence in performance and improve their choices towards their quality of life and lifelong learning , through integrated work with partners and allies with the various governmental bodies and civil society institutions, so as the Supreme Council for Women becomes the national house of expertise specialized in women’s affairs. 17. In this regard, the National Institution values the launching of the National Model for the Integration of Women’s Needs, which is considered a national guide for policy and general strategies makers, legislators and program executors and planners. It sets the general framework for the work of these parties to ensure a true and sustainable integration of Bahraini women in the development process. It also seeks to achieve a balance on the distribution of resources in a manner that reduces and bridges any gaps that affect equity of opportunities for men and women at the national level. Moreover, it specifies the roles and responsibilities of different sectors within the framework of national responsibility to achieve the sustainable effect of integrating women’s needs and equity of opportunities. The Royal Order No. (14) of 2011 and the Royal Order No. (12) of 2014 were issued, establishing and regulating the National Committee to follow up the implementation of the National Model in the Integration of women’s needs into the government’s program of work. 18. Since women are the backbone of the family and the basis of its strength, healthy bringing up, and righteous and sound development, Law No. (19) of 2017 was issued promulgating the Family Law, which came to fill the legislative void arising from Law No. (19) of 2009 issuing the Family Provisions Law (Part 1), which is applicable to individuals belonging to the Sunni school of jurisprudence and does not extend to individuals subject to the Ja’afari school of jurisprudence. Thus, equating the legal status among individuals to ensure the protection of the family in the society, the rules of justice, and equity. 19. W  ith regard to the right to litigation, Law No. (23) of 2015 was issued amending certain provisions of the Law of the Cassation Court promulgated by Decree-Law No. (8) of 1989, under which litigants may contest before the Cassation Court the final judgments passed in respect of litigation over civil, commercial, non-Muslim personal status, and penal matters, and legal proceedings before the Shari’a courts according to the provisions of this Law, with the exception of the legal proceedings related to divorce cases. Thus, it is lawful for litigants to appeal before the Court of Cassation in judgments issued by the Supreme Shari’a Court of Appeal, or the Supreme Shari’a 71