6. Moreover, Paragraph (1) of Article (7) of the proposed law has violated each of the stipulations of Articles (1/E, 4, 18, 31) of the Bahraini Constitution, and Articles (2,5) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), and Articles (2,5) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), and Articles (1,5) of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD). Eighth: Proposal concerning the desire of the august Government to prepare a comprehensive national strategy including mechanisms, procedures and plans necessary for dealing with the human rights reports which are issued concerning the Kingdom of Bahrain. 1. The NIHR provided its advisory opinion concerning the proposal for the august Government to prepare a comprehensive national strategy including the mechanisms, procedures and plans necessary for dealing with the human rights reports that are issued concerning the Kingdom of Bahrain, and it explained in this connection that it views as important the presence of a comprehensive national strategy for human rights in the state given that it is among the necessary and significant foundations in terms of influencing the efforts to promote, develop and protect human rights, and given that it defines a constellation of main objectives subject of interest, and in which governmental and non-governmental efforts overlap (legislative authority, the NIHR, civil society organizations) for purposes of achieving them in actual reality through practical and genuine practices in this regard. ‫اﻟﺘﻘﺮﻳﺮ اﻟﺴﻨﻮي اﻟﺜﺎﻟﺚ‬ ‫ﻟﻠﻤﺆﺳﺴﺔ اﻟﻮﻃﻨﻴﺔ ﻟﺤﻘﻮق اﻧﺴﻨﺎم‬ ‫اﻟﺒﺤﺮﻳﻦ‬ ‫ ـ‬2015 ‫ﻟﻌﺎم‬ 2. It is necessary for the element‫ﻣﻤﻠﻜﺔ‬ of comprehensiveness to be present in this strategy, whereby its scope would encompass all the policies of implementing civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights on the one hand, and on the other creating a clear modality in the field of cooperating with the international mechanisms for protecting human rights, through laying down a plan to coordinate and draft the reports and submit them to bodies focusing on treaties and the mechanism of comprehensive regular review. 3. Moreover, the comprehensive scope extends to creating cooperation with international organizations and the regional bodies operating in the field of human rights, and particularly the facets of coordination in preparing responses to the statements, inquiries and the requests for dispatching delegations to the Kingdom. 4. Whereas the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the quarter that chairs the High Coordinating Committee for Human Rights which has been reconstituted pursuant to the Resolution of the Council of Ministers Number (14) for 2014, where Article (3) of the same resolution stipulates the jurisdictions assigned to the committee including: “1-Laying down a coordination mechanism assuring the achievement of the best policies in dealing with issues related to human rights. 2- Prepare a national plan for human rights at the level of the Government and submit it to the Council of Ministers for approval. 3- Coordinate in preparing responses to the statements and inquires issuing from organizations and associations inside and outside the Kingdom related to human rights.” 45