practical training that enables them to link academic education with practical reality, and to develop their legal and human rights capabilities, the NIHR effectively contributed to the “Legal Clinic and Human Rights” program for the first semester of 2020-2021 for the College of Law at the University of Bahrain during the period from October to December 2020, which is a practical training program for students of the College of Law to acquire skills in the field of human rights, through workshops and visual presentations on “The Role of the NIHR in the promotion and protection of human rights”. The program spanned over ten weeks, and dealt with several topics, the most important of which are: general information on human rights and fundamental freedoms, national, regional, and international mechanisms for the protection of human rights, the role of the NIHR in protecting human rights and fundamental freedoms, and the role of the NIHR in promoting human rights and fundamental freedoms. All topics of the program were linked to economic rights which are the focus of the program for this semester. The NIHR's lectures within the Legal Clinic Program and Human Rights for the Faculty of Law at the University of Bahrain, October 5, 2020 Fifth: Building NIHR employee capacities 14. Emanating from its role in building capacities and preparing a national cadre specialized in the field of human rights, the NIHR held a workshop on “Procedures for announced and unannounced visits to correctional and rehabilitation centers, pre-trial detention and the role of health and social care homes” during January 2020, for members of the Board of Commissioners NIHR Bahrain- Eighth Annual Report 2020 89