students. The program aims at acquiring skills in human rights through educational lectures and visual presentations on the role of the NIHR in the promotion and the protection of human rights. The eight-week program addressed the NIHR’s competence in the promotion field, as well as its role in the protection of human rights through explaining the mechanism of receiving complaints and the relevant procedures, providing legal assistance and counsel, and its role in monitoring human rights violations. 47. Moreover, the NIHR, in partnership with the Supreme Council for Women, the Bahrain Institute for Political Development, and the Institute for Judicial and Legal Studies, organized the awareness program on constitutional and human rights for government institutions and civil society organizations “My Rights 2” from April to October 2018. The aim of the program is to increase the awareness and develop the culture of employees working in the public sector and civil society organizations on constitutional, legal, and social rights and duties, and the legislation relating to the legal status of women in the various fields. In addition, make such a culture, lifestyle, and everyday behavior in their work in these institutions and organizations. 48.  The program addressed the following topics: the role of the NIHR in the promotion and protection of human rights, the role of the Supreme Council for Women in the promotion and protection of women’s rights, civil society and its relationship to democratic transformation, the role of the Office of Financial and Administrative Control in the control of public funds, mechanisms for achieving equal opportunities and gender balance at the national level, legal literacy for people with no legal background, the concepts of citizenship and human rights, development and democracy in the Kingdom of Bahrain, the role of the media in political shaping of citizens, the rights and obligations of the public servant under the Retirement Law, human rights and Sustainable Development Goals, the general framework of women’s rights and the most important laws and resolutions supporting the integration of women’s needs, functional rights and duties under the provisions of the Civil Service Bureau Law, political participation of women in the Bahraini constitution and legislation, democracy in the reform project, rights and fundamental freedoms in the Constitution of the Kingdom of Bahrain and the National Action Charter, analysis and interpretation skills to harmonize national legislation with international human rights standards, the rights and guarantees of the contracting party with the management in the Kingdom of Bahrain, the methodology for writing international reports related to women’s rights, and democracy and types of political systems. 49. On World Down Syndrome Day, which falls on March 21 of each year, the NIHR organized a roundtable on “the status of people with Down Syndrome in the Kingdom of Bahrain”. A number of the members of the House of Representatives and the Shura Council, representatives of the relevant government agencies and civil society organizations, as well as many parents of children with Down syndrome participated in the event. The participants of the roundtable discussed the challenges facing people with Down syndrome, and made a number of recommendations. The most important recommendations are to introduce some legislative amendments to promote the protection of the rights of people with Down syndrome, how the community deals with people 45