of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations General Assembly, in the presence of senior staff of official bodies, civil society organizations, law enforcers, and human rights defenders. 6. The NIHR’s Strategy and Plan of Action for the years (2019-2021) aims mainly at making human rights concepts a way of national life. Four main themes are selected for the next three years, namely, environmental impact on human rights, sustainable economic development and human rights, the right to equal treatment, and promotion of awareness of human rights principles in civil society institutions and the business sector. 7. As part of extending the collaboration bridges and bonds with academic institutions working in the field of human rights, the NIHR has concluded a memorandum of understanding with the Faculty of Law at the Royal University for Women to expand future cooperation frameworks in the field of human rights. 8. Concerning partnership with the concerned local, regional, and international bodies, the NIHR held consultative meetings and gatherings with a number of ambassadors and diplomats accredited in the Kingdom of Bahrain, and international organizations, organs, and mechanism concerned with human rights affairs, in addition to regional and international consultancies operating in the human rights field and foreign communities clubs. Those meetings discussed a number of topics, most prominently, the interest of the Kingdom of Bahrain in human rights ever since the launch of the reform project of His Majesty the King, which included establishing several human rights institutions and associations; the most notable is the National Institution for Human Rights. Moreover, the establishment of the National Institution for Human Rights, its legal framework, and its role in the promotion and protection of human rights, in addition to the role of those institutions and their activities in the various issues related to human rights, ways of joint support and cooperation between the two parties, and NIHR’s readiness to provide expertise in the field of training and education on human rights issues and to build the capacity of the members of those institutions insofar as the various international human rights instruments and the arising obligations of the Kingdom of Bahrain, and the relevant international mechanisms of the Human Rights Council were addressed during such meetings and gatherings. 9. Moreover, the NIHR participated in the consultative meetings held by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which were attended by the relevant civil society organizations active in human rights. The purpose of the meetings was to discuss and evaluate the recommendations of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review mechanism of the UN Human Rights Council, and to indicate the recommendations that have been implemented. The NIHR has referred its views on the recommendations to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 10. The NIHR made a significant new achievement, as the Secretariat was able to obtain ISO Quality Management System Certification in its updated version (ISO 9001: 2015) issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), following an audit conducted by Bureau Veritas Certification 37