7- In the field of the protection of family and child, Law Number (17) for the year 2015 was enacted
concerning protection from family violence whose provisions included the concept of family
violence and the crimes produced by such violence, and the decided measures for preventing
violence and protecting the family from it, and the procedures to be followed by the Judicial
Enforcement Authority and the public prosecution in such cases, and the punishments prescribed
in this regard, where this legislation constitutes a framework of protection of the rights guaranteed
by the Constitution and the international conventions for the family and the segments within its
framework.
8- In the same context the enactment of Law Number (10) for the year 2015 amending Article Number
(320) of the Penal Code issued by legislative decree Number (15) for the year 1976 which criminalizes
any that exposes to danger a child who did not reach the age of seven years or incited others to take
such action, which fulfills the principle of the optimal treatment of the child affirmed by the United
Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and the provisions of Article Number (37)
for the year 2012 enshrined in the Rights of the Child.
9- Concerning the advisory opinion of the NIHR on the draft law issuing the Lawyers Law (prepared
in light of the law submitted by the Shura Council), and the draft law concerning household workers
(prepared in light of the proposed law submitted by the House of Representatives) they remain
under study and discussion before the competent committee in the House of Representatives.
اﻟﺘﻘﺮﻳﺮ اﻟﺴﻨﻮي اﻟﺜﺎﻟﺚ
ﻟﻠﻤﺆﺳﺴﺔ اﻟﻮﻃﻨﻴﺔ ﻟﺤﻘﻮق اﻧﺴﻨﺎم
10- As to the proposed law to amend Article Number (45) of the Law Number (23) for the year 2014
اﻟﺒﺤﺮﻳﻦ
ﻣﻤﻠﻜﺔ
ـlaw
2015
ﻟﻌﺎم
enacting the Traffic
law, and the
proposed
to add
a new article under number (350 repeated) to
the Penal Code issued by legislative decree Number (15) for the year 1976, and the proposed law
to amend some of the provisions of the Bahraini Nationality Law for the year 1963, submitted by
the House of Representatives, and the proposal concerning the honorable government to prepare
a comprehensive national strategy including the necessary mechanisms, procedures and plans
for dealing with the legal reports which are issued concerning the Kingdom of Bahrain, these are
subjects which remain under study and consideration before the competent committees at the
House of Representatives.
11- Concerning the complaints related to civil and political rights the NIHR received in 2013 eighty
four (84) complaints, and sixty one (61) complaints in 2014, while the number of complaints in 2015
amounted to fifty eight (58) complaints, where the economic, social and cultural rights accounted
for twenty two (22) complaints in 2013, and thirty five (35) complaints in 2014, and finally eighty (8)
complaints in 2015.
12- The investigation unit affiliated to the Public Prosecution stated that it received two hundred and
ninety eight (298) complaints ranging from claims of torture to ill-treatment, one hundred and twelve
(112) of which were kept in record due to preclusion of the suspicion of criminality.
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