Thirteenth: Cooperation with civil society institutions and human rights defenders 58. In order to extend cooperation with civil society institutions, the NIHR, in partnership with the Youth and Technology Association, organized a workshop entitled “Using Technology in the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights”. The workshop aimed to introduce participants to the importance of employing technology to promote and protect human rights, by presenting practical experiences of the Kingdom of Bahrain on the right to education and the right to personal security, and the role of technology in its development. 59. The NIHR has also organized a workshop entitled “Bullying and its Impact on Human Rights”, in cooperation with Batelco Care Center for Family Violence Cases. The workshop aimed to raise awareness of taking the necessary measures to ensure protecting the society from the negative effects of bullying, reduce this phenomenon, and explain the relationship between bullying and human rights. The workshop - which included a number of representatives of ministries, relevant authorities and civil society institutions - called for the need to limit the spread of this phenomenon by holding workshops and educational lectures for parents, students, and school administrators, and train them on how to handle such cases. 60. The NIHR participated in the 11th Sheikh Khalifa bin Salman bin Mohammed Al Khalifa Scientific Award distribution ceremony for the year 2019, of the Women and Children Information Center of the Maternal and Child Welfare Association, as well as its participation in the symposium accompanying the Ceremony entitled “The Problem of Children of Unknown Parents in the Arab World.” The Symposium aimed to shed light on the importance of intensifying efforts towards caring for children and childhood and striving to provide the best possible ways to achieve a safe and stable childhood free from complexes, discrimination, problems, and violence in all its forms. 61. On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, which falls on 8 March of each year, the NIHR participated in the Forum on Family Laws in the Arab Countries and the Required Reforms, which was organized by the Bahrain Women’s Union in coordination with a number of lawyers and those interested in women’s affairs from the Kingdom and abroad. The main focus areas of the forum included reviewing of the Bahraini family law and the areas of equality and discrimination, the vision of the Bahrain Women’s Union on the Bahraini family law, in addition to reviewing the Kuwaiti Personal Status Law and the Kuwaiti Family Law. 62. In addition, the NIHR participated in the Domestic Workers Conference under the title “A Safe Work Trip from the Countries of Origin to Destination Countries”, organized by the General Federation of Bahrain Trade Unions. This Conference aims to shed light on the rights of domestic workers and introduce the legal protection of domestic workers in the GCC countries (Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf), and review the prominent good practices of domestic 81