to fostering the culture of awareness of the rights of domestic workers in accordance with national
legislations and relevant international and regional instruments and conventions.
30. Moreover, the National Institution, in its striving to convert knowledge of human rights into
practical skills, held a training program for the students of the ninth summer camp to prepare the
youth of the future particular to the Royal Police Academy, where the training addressed topics
related to human rights and voluntary works, the right to life, the right to health care, and the right
for care of the disabled child, and, also, the Institution held a lecture on “international humanitarian
law” for the law students in the Applied Science University.
31. In this connection, the National Institution has contributed effectively to the “the legal human rights
clinic in the University of Bahrain,” which is a practical training program for the Faculty of Law
students for purposes of acquiring skills in the field of human rights, through offering workshops
and visual presentations on the role of the National Institution in the field of promoting and
protecting human rights, where the program lasted for fifteen weeks addressing the specialization
of the Institution in the field of promotion of human rights, in addition to its role in the field of
protecting human rights through elucidating the mechanism for receiving complaints and the
related procedures, and offering legal assistance and consultation, alongside its role in the processes
of monitoring human rights violations.
32. To implement the action and strategic plan of the National Institution for Human Rights for the
years 2015-2018, the National Institution has organized in partnership with the Bahrain Institute for
Political Development and the Institute of Judicial and Legal Studies a “legal” program for public
sector employees, where the Program aimed to develop the culture of those working in the public
sector in the constitutional, legal and human rights fields, and rendering it a culture and daily
pattern of life and conduct to be exercised in public office, and which treats the following topics: the
basic rights and freedoms in the Constitution of Bahrain and the National Action Charter, the rights
and obligations of the public employee in Bahraini legislation, the role of the Audit and Financial
and Administrative Control Bureau insofar as overseeing public wealth, the International Bill of
Human Rights, the skills of analysis and interpretation to render national legislations consistent
with international human rights standards, the international, regional and national mechanisms
for promoting and protecting human rights, the principles and foundations of the reform project
in the Kingdom of Bahrain, the rights and guarantees of the contractual party in the Kingdom of
Bahrain, the rules and guarantees related to the exercise of the public employee exercising political
rights and freedoms, the methodology of writing legal reports, legal and democratic development
in the Kingdom of Bahrain, the right of the public servant to retirement, administrative and judicial
oversight and its role in protecting the rights of the employee and public office, academic research
skills in the legal field as relates to human rights, administrative good governance and its role in
promoting transparency and protecting human rights.
33. In the same context, and emanating from the role of the National Institution towards civil society
which is considered a fundamental partner in the field of promoting, protecting and enhancing
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