Second Annual Report of the National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) 2014 - Kingdom of Bahrain 6. In order to enrich the scientific and cognitive awareness of the matters related to human rights, NIHR released “Human Rights Culture Series” in cooperation with the Constitutional and Legal Studies Center of the University of Bahrain, researchers and those interested in this area inside and outside the Kingdom. NIHR released a number of academic legal publications related to human rights. Eight books were completed to be published in 2015 on international events and days related to human rights. 7. These books and studies address various topics concerned with human rights, namely: “Human rights and fundamental freedoms from an Islamic, international and regional perspective, with particular reference to those rights and freedoms in the Kingdom of Bahrain”; “Labor rights in the light of the Bahraini labor law and international human rights standards”; “Legal protection for the disabled reality and expectations in the Kingdom of Bahrain”; “Death penalty in national legislation: Bahraini legislation as study case, and a comparative study of international covenants and Islamic law”; “Women’s rights in the Bahraini Family Law (Section I)”; “Human Rights in the Criminal Procedure Code”; “Guarantees of fair trial in accordance with international human rights standards”; and, finally, “The National Institution for Human Rights in the Kingdom of Bahrain: Composition and future prospects”. 8. This legal series comes within NIHR role in the promotion and dissemination of human rights culture through highlighting the most fundamental and highly practiced rights and freedoms by individuals and indicating the reality of domestic legislation and their conformity with the relevant international human rights standards. These publications are made available to individuals, including researchers, academics, lawyers, law enforcement officials, judges, prosecutors, members of the House of Representatives and the Shura Council, university and school students, NGOs and human rights activists in the field of human rights in order to introduce them to those rights and freedoms and empower the exercise of such rights and freedom so as to ensure to ensure effective enjoyment to the extent possible. 9. In the same context, NIHR developed the biannual refereed journal “Bahraini Journal of Human Rights”, which aims to disseminate and promote human rights culture and advance human rights standards in the community. This journal is the first result of the efforts exerted for enriching the legal thought related to the international human rights and the international humanitarian law, with a focus on topics that are concerned with the local, regional and international reality, human rights studies, theses abstracts, and the principles and provisions of domestic and international human rights case law. In order to achieve the objectives of the journal, a number of research and studies specialized in the field of human rights were received to be published. NIHR is in the process of evaluating how compatible these publications are with publication standards. The first issue of the Journal is expected to be released in the first half of 2015. 10. As far as publications are concerned, NIHR reprinted a number of international and regional documents related to human rights in Arabic and English, such as “Paris Principles” relating to the Status of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights; the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and its Protocols; the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR); the Arab Charter of Human Rights and Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam. In addition, NIHR printed the amended Constitution of the Kingdom of Bahrain, and reprinted and published NIHR First Annual Report. All of these publications as a whole help promote human rights, entrench human rights values, and raise awareness to guarantee the exercise of these rights. In addition, the Declaration of Human Rights of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is scheduled to be reprinted. 47