30. The NIHR has participated in the sixteenth Meeting of the General Assembly of the Arab Network for National Human Rights Institutions, which concluded in Cairo, Egypt, with the participation of counterpart institutions from a number of Arab states and international institutions and personalities in the field of human rights. During the Meeting, a number of Member national institutions presented working papers, which addressed the developments and challenges facing them, to consider when updating the Network›s strategy for the coming years. The Executive Director of the Arab Network for National Human Rights Institutions presented a report on the Network›s achievements, outcomes, in addition to proposals on developing training and rehabilitation, and updating the Network›s strategic plan for the coming years. 31.  The NIHR has also attended the Fourth Meeting of the Human Rights Working Group in coordination with the European External Action Service (EEAS) in Brussels, Belgium, to review the NIHR’s role in promoting and protecting human rights in the Kingdom of Bahrain and the most important and leading Bahraini achievements in the field of human rights protection, and in promoting freedoms political, civil, economic, social, and cultural freedoms, in accordance with its accession to international human rights conventions and agreements. 32. In addition, the NIHR has also participated in presenting the keynote speech for the Second Annual Conference of the Bahrain Alliance for Persons with Disabilities, which focused on the protection and safeguarding of the rights of persons with disability in the Kingdom of Bahrain. It addressed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ratified by the Kingdom of Bahrain under Law No. (22) of 2011, the most important relevant national charters and legislation, which aim to promote and protect the full equitable enjoyment of all human rights by persons with disabilities, and the role of the NIHR in promoting and protecting the rights of persons with disabilities. Sixth: Commemorating the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the National Institution for Human Rights 33. Coinciding with the tenth anniversary of its establishment, and on the occasion of Human Rights Day, the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which aims to spread messages of peace, peaceful coexistence, and mutual respect among peoples, the NIHR held a reception in the presence of His Excellency the Minister of Justice, Islamic Affairs, and Endowments, and a number of Members of the Council of Representatives and the Shura Council, senior officials, Arab and foreign ambassadors accredited to the Kingdom of Bahrain, with the participation of members of the NIHR’s Council of Commissioners and employees of its General Secretariat. During the Ceremony, a speech was given on this occasion, and a special video was shown documenting the most prominent efforts of the NIHR and its important achievements at the local, regional, and international levels during the last decade, upon which the NIHR has gained the public’s confidence owing to resolving their complaints, as well as 73