Second Annual Report of the National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) 2014 - Kingdom of Bahrain framework; coordination among key resources; ensuring the application of key performance indicators; provision of water for future generations; protecting the current groundwater sources; developing the role of civil society organizations and the role of individuals to participate in this strategy; and promoting effective cooperation between GCC countries for the purpose of protecting these water resources by inducting and creating a unified Gulf network for water connection. • Urging the Government to set a timetable to address all applications for housing services, with particular attention to the old applications, by making the best use of the available financial resources. • Urging the Government to pay greater attention to evaluating the designs of roads, streets and bridges in order to comply with international safety and security conditions, so as to ensure the safety of users against the dangers resulting from their use. • Considering and allowing the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living and the right to non-discrimination in this context; the independent expert on human rights obligations related to safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment; the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty; and the Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation services of the Human Rights Council to visit the Kingdom. • Urging the legislative authority to expedite the adoption of the draft law on real estate rent in order to regulate the relationship between lessors and lessees, provide the necessary protection for tenants, ensure reasonable increase of the rent value, and guarantee legal protection against forced eviction, harassment and other threats. RIGHT TO WORK: • Urging the Government to complete the positive steps taken to settle the cases of the dismissed workers in order to finally close this file. • Urging the Government to make further efforts to create employment opportunities to accommodate the largest possible number of job seekers. • Urging the Government to make further efforts to improve the level of wages and career incentives in the public and private sectors to be commensurate with a decent standard of living. • Urging the Government to take strict legal action against business owners and companies that did not comply with the minimum protection requirements of expatriates’ accommodations. • Urging the Government to join the ILO Convention No. 87 of 1988 concerning Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organize, and ILO Convention No. 98 of 1988 concerning the Application of the Principles of the Right to Organize and to Bargain Collectively. COMBATING TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS • Urging the National Committee to Combat Trafficking in Persons to expedite establishing a comprehensive national strategy to combat and prevent the crime of trafficking in Persons, to include in particular the necessary measures to prevent the crime, protect victims, and punish the perpetrators. • Urging the Government to take the necessary measures to ensure the representation of the NIHR in the National Committee to Combat Trafficking in Persons, in view of the National Institution role in the promotion and protection of human rights. 21