18- Moreover, the NIHR was keen to attend and to have local and external representation at regional and international forums related to its activity and areas of specialization through participating in numerous symposiums, workshops, training courses and conferences, where the NIHR participated in the “Human Rights Symposium: A Unified Gulf Vision” organized by the General Secretariat of the Gulf Cooperation Council, and it also participated in the Third Arab Iberian Dialogue Conference for NIHR; as well as the training program on the role of NIHR in the field of promoting and protecting human rights organized by Causeway Institution for Peace-building and Conflict Resolution (CIPCR). Also, it participated in a workshop on the implementation of the Convention against Torture and other forms of ill-treatment and best practices for preventing torture at detention centers in the Middle East and North Africa. 19- Furthermore, the NIHR has participated in the meetings of two sessions Numbers (29) and (30) of the Human Rights Council affiliated to the United Nations, where it presented- on the sidelines of the encounter- an introductory lecture addressing the role of the NIHR in promoting and protecting human rights in the Kingdom of Bahrain, and it participated in the twentieth annual meeting of the Asia Pacific Forum which was held in the Republic of Mongolia, in addition to participating in monitoring the collective and regional elections in the Kingdom of Morocco at the invitation of the NIHR within the team of the Arab Network for National Human Rights Institutions. ‫اﻟﺘﻘﺮﻳﺮ اﻟﺴﻨﻮي اﻟﺜﺎﻟﺚ‬ ‫ﻟﻠﻤﺆﺳﺴﺔ اﻟﻮﻃﻨﻴﺔ ﻟﺤﻘﻮق اﻧﺴﻨﺎم‬ ‫ ـ ﻣﻤﻠﻜﺔ اﻟﺒﺤﺮﻳﻦ‬2015 ‫ﻟﻌﺎم‬ 20- The NIHR organized a training program targeting the members of the Board of Commissioners concerning the means of dealing with the media in the field of human rights, in cooperation with Causeway Institution for Peace-building and Conflict Resolution (CIPCR), and the NIHR was also keen to build the capacity of its working cadre through participating in a number of conferences, workshops and training courses, including a workshop on bolstering the legislative frameworks to protect woman from violence in cooperation with the Center of Arab Woman for Training and Research (CAWTAR) in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and its participation in the workshop held in the Egyptian capital Cairo in cooperation with the Arab Network for National Human Rights Institutions on introducing the mechanism of the Arab Charter on Human Rights (ACHR) as a regional mechanism in the field of promoting and protecting rights and freedoms, as well as participating in the meeting held by the Arab Network for National Human Rights Institutions to discuss and evaluate the code of conduct of Arab men responsible for applying the law. Section II: Role of the NIHR in the Field of Protecting Human Rights 1- The provisions of Law Number (26) for the year 2014 to establish the NIHR, emphasized the latter’s role in the field of protecting human rights, by according it a group of jurisdictions in order to achieve its goals in this field, such as monitoring cases of human rights violations and conducting the necessary surveys, and receiving complaints related to human rights, and undertaking field visits to monitor the human rights situation at places where such violations could possibly occur. 2- Article Number (12) of the same Law in Paragraph (E) thereof stipulated that the NIHR has jurisdiction to “monitor cases of human rights violations, and to conduct the necessary investigation, and to call the attention of the competent quarters to them while presenting proposals related to initiatives aiming to end such cases, and when necessary to express an opinion concerning the position of those quarters and their reactions,” and Paragraph (F) thereof stipulates its jurisdiction 66