10. Moreover, the National Institution participated in the consultative meetings held by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the attendance of the civil society organizations active in the relevant human rights field, such for purposes of discussing and evaluating the recommendations generated by the Second National Report of the Kingdom of Bahrain of 2012 which was concluded by the taskforce concerned with the mechanism of the comprehensive overview mechanism in the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) affiliated to the United Nations, and to elucidate that which was realized from those recommendations, where the National Institution submitted its perspectives on the totality of the recommendations to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 11. The National Institution was keen on attendance and local and external representation in regional and international forums connected with its field of work and specialization through its participation in numerous seminars, workshops, training courses and conferences, where it participated in a regional conference on “the human rights approaches to dealing with cases of conflict in the Arab region in Qatar, in addition to its participation in a workshop on elections and the role of national institutions in monitoring conferences in Khartoum in the Republic Sudan. 12. In the same context, the National Institutions participated in the meeting of the Global Alliance for National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) and the regional meeting of the Asia Pacific Forum (APF) in Geneva Switzerland, and also in the meeting of the joint taskforce between the Kingdom of Bahrain and the European External Action Service is a European Union concerned with human rights in Brussels (Belgium), in addition to its participation in a number of training courses, most importantly: a training course on the international mechanisms for protecting human rights- the mechanism of comprehensive regular overview in Geneva Switzerland, and a training course on human rights and business, which was organized by the Asia Pacific Forum (APF) in the capital of Thailand, Bangkok. 13. Moreover, the National Institution participated in the meeting of the United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) in its (60th) session, allocated for overviewing the second regular report which the Kingdom of Bahrain submitted concerning the period (2009-2015), and also the Third quarterly report which it submitted in response to the updated list concerning the issues raised by the committee. 14. The National Institution submitted its parallel report to the Committee Against Torture (CAT), which included five main axes which evidenced the role of the National Institution in following up the implementation of the recommendations and comments of the committee, where the first Axis addressed the legislative measures related to the implementation of the Convention for the Prevention of Torture and other forms of treatment or harsh punishment or inhuman or degrading treatment, and the recommendations of the National Institution in this connection, which occurred in its annual reports. 15. Whereas the Second Axis of the administrative measures “institutional structure”, in terms of supporting the National Institution, emerged in the amendment of the Establishment Law consistent with the Paris Principle organizing the activity of the national institutions, and Law Number (18) 44