its effective efforts to communicate and disseminate a culture of human rights. In addition, the video highlighted the advisory opinions provided by the NIHR to the constitutional authorities on various human rights issues, whether to review harmonizing national legislation with international instruments, or to propose amendments, or draft new legislation, in addition to submitting annual and parallel reports to the Treaty Bodies of the Human Rights Council, the Universal Periodic Review Mechanism, and the Arab Human Rights Committee. Seventh: Publications related to human rights 34. To promote and develop a culture of human rights in the Kingdom of Bahrain for the various official and civil society groups, the NIHR has showcased a selected number of the NIHR’s publications in the workshop “Pity stares at persons with disability and how to deal with them in providing first aid”, organized by the Bahrain Mobility International. In addition, the NIHR has also participated in distributing its publications on “Careers Day” of the Royal University for Women, as well as distributing its children’s publications to the participants in the summer activity of the “Voluntary Giving Team”. The NIHR’s publications were also distributed to the visitors of its pavilion in the Al-Ayyam Cultural Festival for Books in its 26th session. 35. In light of the General Secretariat’s commitment to implement a green policy based on rationalizing energy consumption and recycling by reducing paper consumption, the NIHR has printed a limited number of publications and settled for uploading and displaying the rest of the publications in the electronic library on the official website of the NIHR. 36. The NIHR has printed educational flyers introducing its work in Arabic, English, Hindi, and the Kerala language, Hindi (Malayalam), Filipino (Tugaloo) and Thai, with the aim of introducing its role in promoting and protecting human rights to the various segments of the society. It has also printed a brochure on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights For Children (in English), a coloring book on the Rights of the Child in English, as well as a flyer about the NIHR (3rd edition). 37. In the same context, the NIHR has launched the fifth book of “Human Rights Culture Series” titled “Fair Trial Guarantees According to International Human Rights Standards”, authored by Lawyer Saddam Ibrahim Abu Azzam and legal representative Nancy Wasfi Atoum. This book sheds light on the consolidation of international human rights standards, the origin and emergence of judicial independence, and fair trial guarantees before and during the trial stage. 38. As part of the NIHR’s participation in observing the 2018 parliamentary and municipal elections, it prepared and printed the NIHR Report on Observing the Parliamentary and Municipal Elections of 2018. The report included a prelude on the legal basis and organizational procedures undertaken by the NIHR to observe the electoral process. The report was divided into three main sections: the First Section was titled “Observing the parliamentary and municipal elections prior to 74

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