Right to Equality and non-Discrimination: 1.10 Civil Service Directives No. (4) of 2014 regarding the establishment of Equal Opportunities in Government Agencies Committee were issued, which aim to reduce the disparity between women and men in the field of employment. These committees are concerned with setting controls, standards, and plans, achieving full integration of women needs within a framework of equal opportunities and monitoring their implementation, and providing consultations in coordination with the Supreme Council for Women and the Civil Service Bureau. This prompted the legislative authority, including the Shura Council and the Council of Representatives, some public institutions and the civil sector to adopt this approach, by activating the national model for integrating women’s needs within a framework of equal opportunities. 1.11 In support of the principle of gender equality in terms of opportunities and in line with ILO Conventions that prohibit discrimination at work, and to increase the empowerment of women to participate in various fields, Decree-Law No. (16) of 2021 amended some provisions of Law No. (36) of 2012 Promulgating the Labour Law in the Private Sector, which abrogated Article (30), which stipulates the need for the competent minister to determine the conditions, jobs and occasions in which women may not be employed at night, and Article (31), which requires the competent minister to issue a decision specifying the jobs prohibited for women. Under this amendment to the Law, employed women are given the opportunity to work in any field without restricting their right to “Additional Information” Parallel Report of the National Institution for Human Rights in the Kingdom of Bahrain to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) © 2022 7