5. Advice on Judicial Proceedings: NIHR monitors the judicial proceedings to ensure that individuals enjoy fair trial guarantees by adopting international standards during investigation and trial and through monitoring substantial pleas and applications during the investigation, such as exposure to physical or moral coercion, prejudice to the guarantees of the accused, the public prosecution response to these guarantees, undue delay of trials, the availability of constitutional and legal guarantees during the trial, or any other procedures that are contrary to the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, and addressing these violations through recommendations submitted to the competent judicial authority. (III) PREPARATION OF OR CONTRIBUTION TO THE INTERNATIONAL REPORTS NIHR prepares parallel reports for some of the international conventions that oblige states parties to submit regular reports to the committees established under these conventions to oversee the implementation thereof. Among the most important conventions that require reporting are the following: 1. International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, (CERD). 2. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, (CCPR). 3. International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, (CESC). 4. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, (CEDAW). 5. The Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, (CAT). 6. Convention on the Rights of the Child, (CRC). 7. International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families, (CMW). 8. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, (CRPD). 9. International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, (CED). In cooperation with official authorities, NIHR participates in preparing national reports in accordance with human rights conventions. (IV) RECEIPT OF COMPLAINTS AND VIOLATIONS MONITORING OF HUMAN RIGHTS NIHR receives complaints, reports and petitions from all individuals and entities with respect to violations against rights and public freedoms. It studies and refers these complaints, reports and petitions to the competent authorities and follows them up effectively, enlightens the concerned parties regarding the due procedures and helps them take such procedures, or assists in settling them with the concerned bodies. 7

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