3.13 Recommendations: (A) Seeking to set a timetable for processing and meeting requests related to housing services that have been in place for five years or more, by developing partnerships with the private banking and real estate sector and developing appropriate solutions and alternatives. (B) Seeking to include the largest number of beneficiaries of housing requests in the “Mazaya” project with disregard to salary or age of the beneficiary, provided that the real criterion is the need for a housing service, considering the changes of life pattern in the community. (C) Calling upon the competent authorities to study the laws and regulations in force related to the environment and to make the necessary amendments to them in a way that adapts to environmental changes and developments, or to issue a comprehensive and integrated law on the environment, to provide the necessary protection for environmental issues of all kinds, whether land or marine, or those related to climate change. (D) Renewing the call for the establishment of a public prosecution office for the environment, whose mission is to initiate criminal proceedings in the name of the community before courts specialized in environmental issues of all kinds. (E) Dealing appropriately with any administrative or legal violations or abuses issued by natural or legal persons, whether public (official) or private, that perform acts or refrain from acts required by laws, regulations, systems and decisions in force related to the protection of the environment. (F) Inviting the competent authorities to raise comprehensive and continuous awareness of the category of fishermen to use safer and more environmentally friendly methods related to shrimp fishing, in a manner that does not negatively affect their living income levels. Parallel Report of the National Institution for Human Rights in the Kingdom of Bahrain submitted to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)@2021 12

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