14- Within the same context, the NIHR effectively contributed to the program of the “Legal Clinic for Human Rights at the University of Bahrain,” which is an applied training program for the students of the Faculty of Law in order to acquire skills in the human rights field, through holding workshops and visual presentations on the role of the NIHR in the field of promoting and protecting human rights, where the program spanned fifteen weeks which focused on the reinforcement aspects of the Institution, in addition to its role in the field of protecting human rights through elucidating the mechanisms of receiving complaints and the procedures related thereto, and to offer legal assistance and advise, in addition to its role in the process of monitoring human rights violations. 15- Within the framework of the NIHR building bridges and forging cooperation with civil society organizations operating in the human rights field, it held discussion encounters with each of the General Federation of Workers Trade Unions in Bahrain (GFWTUB), the Bahrain Labor Union Free Federation (BLUFF), the Bahrain Women Association (BWA), the Bahrain Bar Society (ABC), Bahrain Transparency Society (BTS), the Bahrain Diabetes Society (BDS), the Mabade’a Society For Human Rights, the Together for Human Rights, the Manama Center for Human Rights, the Migrant Workers Protection Society (MWPS), the Children & Mothers Welfare Society, the Bahrain MS Patients Society. Moreover, the NIHR organized a workshop for civil society organizations operating in the field of human rights on the sound methodologies and recognized methods in preparing legal reports, such by guidance of the model principles adopted by the UN in this regard, where those encounters discussed a number of subjects foremost of which is the origin of the NIHR and its legal framework and its role in the field of promoting and protecting human rights, in addition to the role of those organizations and their activities in terms of various issues related to human rights, and the means for joint cooperation and support between the two parties, and the readiness of the NIHR to offer expertise in the field of training in terms of the issues of human rights and build the capacity of those affiliated to those institutions in respect of the various international human rights conventions and the obligations of the Kingdom of Bahrain, and the international mechanism of the relevant human rights council ‫اﻟﺘﻘﺮﻳﺮ اﻟﺴﻨﻮي اﻟﺜﺎﻟﺚ‬ ‫ﻟﻠﻤﺆﺳﺴﺔ اﻟﻮﻃﻨﻴﺔ ﻟﺤﻘﻮق اﻧﺴﻨﺎم‬ ‫ ـ ﻣﻤﻠﻜﺔ اﻟﺒﺤﺮﻳﻦ‬2015 ‫ﻟﻌﺎم‬ 16- Moreover, the NIHR participated in the consultative meetings held by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the presence of civil society organizations operating in the relevant human rights field, such with a view to discussing and evaluating the recommendations concluded by the working team concerned with the mechanism of comprehensive regular overview at the Human Rights Council affiliated to the United Nations, and to state what was accomplished from those recommendations, where the NIHR referred its observations concerning the totality of the recommendations to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 17- The NIHR was not removed from interacting with international events related to the promotion of human rights in society, where it issued during 2015 six statements on the occasion of Human Rights Day, the International Peace Day, the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the Arab Human Rights Day, International Women’s Day (IWD), where those statements aimed to introduce the public and all those concerned with the Day or the international event, whilst stating its significance. 65