Second Topic - Follow-up on the Recommendations of the NIHR Issued by Human Rights Forums with Civil society institutions Preface: 1. As part of its efforts to consolidate and strengthen cooperation with non-governmental organizations, the NIHR held a number of human rights forums to deepen community partnership with relevant civil society institutions, through which concrete developments and challenges in practice were highlighted and developmental solutions to advance the situation of human rights in the Kingdom of Bahrain were proposed. 2. The NIHR started by meeting with civil society institutions working in the field of human rights in general followed by meeting with organizations working in the field of environmental rights, followed by those working in the field of the right to health, leading to holding its national consultations with other organizations, particularly those working in the field of the rights of the most vulnerable groups (such as the child, women, persons with disabilities and the elderly). These human rights forums resulted in several relevant recommendations. 3. Consequently, the NIHR addressed eight ministries and official entities to obtain their views on the recommendations - within their terms of competence – namely: the Ministry of Health, government (public) hospitals, the Ministry of Social Development, and the Ministry of Municipalities Affairs and Agriculture (previously Ministry of Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning), the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Oil and Environment, the Supreme Council of Health and the Supreme Council for Women. The NIHR informed the Cabinet of these recommendations. 4. The NIHR extends its sincere thanks to the three ministries and official bodies (Ministry of Health, Ministry of Municipalities Affairs and Agriculture and Ministry of Industry and Trade) that reacted and took action regarding its requests, and whose responses have contributed to clarifying their roles in protecting and promoting human rights in the Kingdom. The NIHR have not received responses from the rest of the authorities during the time frame of this report. 35