National Institution for Human Rights – Kingdom of Bahrain and recommending the importance of legislative alignment between the national legal system and international commitments in the field of human rights in order to achieve the national interest. 18. The third theme aims to participate in the preparation of an extended national program for human rights education. Human rights education is one of the most fundamental pillars for achieving the desired objectives in the field of human rights, both in terms of defining human rights or raising awareness of these rights. This will create positive impact on behaviour, will curb and correct negative phenomena, and ensure automatic integration of human rights principles and standards in the development plans, claims, policies and legislation. NIHR will benefit from the methodologies of the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education and the International Programme for Human Rights Education adopted by the United Nations consecutively since 1995. This will be achieved through cooperation with the ministry concerned with education in order to develop the integration of the human rights theme in education, including teaching human rights in the curriculum of primary and secondary education, and reviewing the curriculum in general, in order to improve the content related to human rights values, and any changes thereto, and ensure its compliance with the international human rights commitments of the Kingdom. In addition, a specialized program will be organized for the development of university students’ awareness of human rights, in cooperation with public and private universities. A program in human rights will be offered within the relevant graduate programs (international law, political science, and media). Intellectual events and workshops will be held on the development of human rights awareness among media activists in the various media outlets: audio-visual, written and electronic media, since Media has a close relationship with human rights. NIHR will promote coverage of human rights issues, develop the public opinion knowledge of these issues, organize specialized training courses for media professionals to build knowledge and develop awareness in the field of human rights, possess the necessary skills to integrate human rights into topics, issues and policies, and play a positive role as media figures in relation to human rights, provide and distribute publications related to the construction of knowledge of human rights through the media, libraries, schools, universities and institutions concerned with culture, and allocate spaces for public service in various media to pass short messages with relevant content to human rights, which contribute to changing some of the negative phenomena that affect the enjoyment of fundamental rights and freedoms. NIHR cooperates with civil society organizations concerned with human rights in order to build an integrated awareness program, ensure the appropriate amount of coordination, promote and disseminate the culture of human rights in the society, adopt integrated human rights knowledge and awareness programs that serve activists in civil society institutions, which have various programs and objectives, including charitable and humanitarian development associations, professional associations and trade unions, as well as political associations, and launch a national project in collaboration with the concerned authorities in order to promote human rights in the policies and practices adopted by the relevant law enforcement bodies, including the judiciary, public prosecution, security services, defence force, and national guards. 19. The fourth theme aims to prepare a specialized program in the field of promotion of citizenship rights and supporting its values. This is the main tool to promote human rights culture among all segments of society. In this context, NIHR intends to prepare an integrated and continuous project in cooperation with all relevant parties. The Institution will prepare an integrated awareness program on citizenship rights and values, and will integrate its content in the context of the activities of the former theme, i.e. human rights education. Regional events for developing awareness of 34