perpetrated against this segment and promoting gender equality. Moreover, the booklet did not overlook including a number of best practices related to promoting and protecting the rights of this segment. 6- The cooperation of the NIHR with the Asia Pacific Forum emerges as an effort to consider the category of women and girls from among the segments deserving of care and which should enjoy special rights compatible with their nature in a manner providing a sound and healthy social and psychological environment. It is worthy of note that the Asia Pacific Forum is an agglomeration including national human rights institutions in the Asia continent, for purposes of offering support and developing the work of NIHR, while expanding the scope of mutual support, cooperation and joint activities between the member institutions of the Forum. 7- With a view to enriching the scientific and academic aspects in issues related to human rights for the public, the NIHR held two specialized lectures, the first of which dealt with the subject of “Social Rights of Persons with Physical Handicaps”, which garnered the wide participation of civil society organizations and those interested in the rights of this group, while the other lecture treated the topic “Concepts of Democracy and the Principle of the Rule of Law and its Impact on Human Rights in the International System.” ‫اﻟﺘﻘﺮﻳﺮ اﻟﺴﻨﻮي اﻟﺜﺎﻟﺚ‬ ‫ﻟﻠﻤﺆﺳﺴﺔ اﻟﻮﻃﻨﻴﺔ ﻟﺤﻘﻮق اﻧﺴﻨﺎم‬ ‫ ـ ﻣﻤﻠﻜﺔ اﻟﺒﺤﺮﻳﻦ‬2015 ‫ﻟﻌﺎم‬ 8- As a consummation of the efforts of the NIHR in this field, it continued to follow up its publications of the “Series of Human Rights Culture” in cooperation with the Center for Constitutional and Legal Studies in the University of Bahrain, and some of the scholars and concerned individuals in this field inside and abroad the Bahrain, with a view to publishing a number of academic legal works related to human rights, where the NIHR has completed eight books as a prelude to their publication concurrent with international occasions related to human rights, and these books and studies treated various topics focusing on human rights, namely: “Human rights and fundamental freedoms from an Islamic, international and regional perspective, with special reference to those rights and freedoms in the Kingdom of Bahrain,” and “The rights of the worker in light of the Bahraini Labor Code and international human rights standards,” and “Legal protection of those with physical handicaps, between reality and aspirations in the Kingdom of Bahrain,” and “Capital punishment in national legislation, Bahraini legislation as a model, and international conventions and the Islamic Shari`ah, A Comparative study,” and “The rights of woman in Bahraini Family Law (First part),” and “Human Rights in the Criminal Code of Procedure,” and “Guarantees of a Fair Trial in Accordance with International Human Rights Standards,” and finally a book on the “The NIHR for Human Rights in the Kingdom of Bahrain: Formation and Future Horizons.” 9- This varied legal series emerges as an expression of the role assumed by the NIHR in the field of promoting and spreading the culture of human rights by means of shedding a light on the foremost rights and basic freedoms that are most practiced by individuals, and elucidating the reality of the local legislations and the extent of their harmony with relevant international human rights standards, and making these accessible to individuals including researchers, academicians and lawyers concerned with applying the law and judges and members of the public prosecution and members of the House of Representatives and the Shura Council, university and school students and private universities and activists in the field of human rights, such with a view to raising awareness about those rights and freedoms and enabling their exercise in a manner guaranteeing actually enjoyment of those rights. 63