First Topic - Follow-up on the Recommendations of the NIHR Contained in its Ninth Annual Report of 2021 Preface: 1. Within the framework of its enduring keenness to follow up on its recommendations contained in its annual and special reports, given that these recommendations and their essence form a road map towards further promotion and protection of human rights in the Kingdom of Bahrain, the NIHR contacted the competent ministries and government bodies to get their views on the recommendations, the extent to which such can be implemented, and the progress made in their implementation. 2. Hence, the NIHR has addressed five ministries and government bodies to obtain their views regarding the recommendations contained in its Ninth Annual Report for the year 2021. These bodies are as follows: the Public Prosecution, Ministry of Interior, public hospitals, Ministry of Labor and Ministry of Social Development. The NIHR extends its thanks to those ministries and official bodies that have interacted with and responded to its requests and whose responses have contributed to clarifying their role in the protection and promotion of human rights in the Kingdom. 3. It is worth mentioning that the total recommendations reached by the NIHR in its Ninth Annual Report for the year 2021 amounted to seventeen (17) recommendations covering five main issues, of which three recommendations pertained to the right to the highest attainable standard of health, three recommendations were connected with the right to communicate with the outside world, two recommendations dealt with the right to physical and moral integrity, six recommendations were related to the right of persons to an adequate standard of living and three recommendations concern the right to recognition as a person before the law. 25