Third Topic - Follow-up on the Recommendations of the NIHR Issued at Seminars and Round Tables Preface: 1. Within the framework of its assigned role in the field of promoting human rights by strengthening cooperation ties between it and the official authorities on the one hand, and civil society institutions on the other hand, the NIHR organized a Round Table on “the Extent of Compatibility of Urban Planning with the Right to a Healthy and Sustainable Environment in the Kingdom of Bahrain” and a Seminar on “Women’s Rights and Equal Pay”, resulting in a number of recommendations. The NIHR addressed the concerned authorities requesting clarifications regarding the extent of implementing such recommendations on the ground or the possibility of adopting them. 2. Regarding the Round Table, the NIHR addressed three ministries and official entities to obtain their views on these recommendations - each according to its jurisdiction - namely: the Ministry of Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning11, the Ministry of Education, and the Supreme Council for Environment (before the establishment of the Ministry of Oil and Environment). In addition, the NIHR informed the Cabinet of these recommendations. 3. The NIHR extends its thanks to those ministries and official bodies that have responded to the NIHR’s requests, and thus have contributed to clarifying their roles in protecting and promoting human rights in the Kingdom. As for the Seminar, the NIHR addressed the Supreme Council for Women, and informed the Cabinet of the recommendations, but it has not received a response from the Supreme Council for Women within the time frame of this report. 11 This was the name of the Ministry when the NIHR addressed it, and it later became three ministries: the Ministry of Works, the Ministry of Municipalities Affairs and Agriculture, and the Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning. The Ministry clarified that the response came from the Municipalities Affairs and from the Urban Planning and Development Authority. 44