5. W  ith the purpose of enriching the scientific and cognitive aspect of human rights issues among the public, the NIHR set up a training course in collaboration with the National Commission for Human Rights in the State of Qatar about regional and international mechanisms for the promotion and protection of human rights. A number of employees from public and government agencies and community organizations participated, along with a number of civil. 6. C  omplementing the strategy and plan of the NIHR in the field of spreading the human rights culture, and in accordance with the best practices in line with international standards, the Institution held an introductory lecture on human rights contained in the Constitution of the Kingdom of Bahrain and its role in the field of promotion and protection of those rights for Al-Shrooq Secondary School for Girls. 7. Likewise, the NIHR effectively contributed to the “Legal Clinic for Human Rights at the University of Bahrain” program for the sixth batch of students. This is a practical training program for law students that enables them to acquire skills in the field of human rights, by offering workshops, lectures and presentations by specialists from the NIHR about its role in the promotion and protection of human rights. The program was spread over fifteen weeks and tackled the Institution’s jurisdiction in the area of promotion, as well as its role in the protection of human rights through a mechanism to receive complaints and related procedures, to provide legal assistance and advice, and its role in the process of monitoring human rights violations. 8. As part of the NIHR interaction with international human rights mechanisms, particularly the universal periodic review mechanism, it filed it parallel report with its observations on the human rights situation in the Kingdom of Bahrain to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations in preparation for the discussion of the third periodic report of the Kingdom of Bahrain for the Working Group on the comprehensive Periodic Review which holds its first session in February 2017. 9.  The NIHR was keen to attend and represent Bahrain locally and externally in regional and international forums related to its work and responsibilities. This occurred through its participation in numerous seminars and workshops, training courses and conferences. The NIHR participated in a workshop on combating human trafficking organized by the United Nations Center for Training and Education in cooperation with the Arab network of national human rights institutions and the National Center for Human Rights in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. It also participated in a workshop on monitoring, monitoring reports, monitoring of hate speech and the role of national human rights institutions, which was organized by the Arab network for national institutions on human rights, in collaboration with UNHCR human rights Commission of Oman for human rights, in addition to its participation in a training program at the British University of Nottingham about the rights of children. 43