National Institution for Human Rights – Kingdom of Bahrain citizenship and its values will be held at the local level to address the relevant gaps in the promotion of citizenship at the community level. NIHR will seek to hold a regular national conference on annual or bi-annual basis, with the participation of all concerned sectors, in order to agree on a national program of action, make practical recommendations and proposals to be adopted in the legislation, policies, and daily practices, and activate the recommendations and proposals in collaboration with various parties in order to ensure equality, equal opportunity and anti-discrimination. These are the core principles of citizenship and the fundamental tools for enhancing national affiliation in line with international human rights standards and the Kingdom commitments towards these standards. 20. Finally, the fifth theme aims to strengthen cooperation at the national, regional and international levels. Cooperation in the field of human rights at the national, regional and international levels is one of the main pillars to strengthen NIHR role in carrying out its duties and functions, and meet the requirements of activating its strategy. Cooperation is activated at the national level by building bridges of communication with the state legislative, executive and judiciary authorities, benefiting particularly from the relevant structures, in particular the Ministry of Human Rights Affairs, the competent departments within the ministries, the Parliamentary Human Rights Committee, other relevant parliamentary committees, the Supreme Coordinating Human Rights Committee, and the diplomatic missions accredited in the Kingdom, cooperating with other relevant national institutions and bodies, such as the Supreme Council for Women, institutes concerned with political development and public administration, and national governmental and non-governmental committees and structures concerned with activating human rights plans, coordinating with these bodies to enforce the recommendations of the periodic comprehensive review of human rights, and the final recommendations for the contractual mechanisms related to the promotion of human rights in Bahrain, meeting international obligations, cooperating with the relevant civil society institutions, taking advantage of their ability to identify the needs of citizens and their expertise in bridging the various gaps, and strengthening the role of these institutions in the field of human rights. 21. Cooperation at the regional level is enhanced through working with the relevant institutions in the framework of the Gulf Cooperation Council, in particular the Office of Human Rights founded within the Secretariat structure. The Office of Human Rights is concerned with highlighting GCC’s achievements in the field of human rights, cooperating with the Arab League institutions involved in human rights, especially the Permanent Arab Human Rights Committee, the Arab Human Rights Committee (the Charter Committee), the expert committees set up by the Arab League in the field of human rights, as well as the departments and agencies specialized in international humanitarian law, women and children, cooperating with the competent departments and organs of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, particularly the permanent independent human rights body of the Organization, which aim to “improve human rights and serve the interests of the Islamic nation”, promoting respect for cultures and dialogue of civilizations according to the principles and objectives of the Charter of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, cooperating with the Islamic Organization for Education, Science and Culture, intensifying and developing cooperation with national human rights institutions in the Arab world, through the Arab Network of National Human Rights Institutions, as well as in the framework of the Arab Organization for Ombudsman Institutions (integrity control system), which includes institutions receiving complaints in the Arab world, and cooperating with non-governmental regional organizations with expertise and competence in the field of human rights to take advantage of their expertise in the field of promotion and protection of human rights. 35