Tenth: Organizing events with civil society organizations concerned with human rights 26. In conjunction with the Kingdom of Bahrain’s celebrations of the nineteenth anniversary of voting on the National Action Charter (NAC), the Al-Marsad Society for Human Rights held the human rights symposium “The National Action Charter... Renaissance and Achievements”, in the presence of several deputies, experts, academics and researchers from various governorates of the Kingdom. During the human rights symposium, the NIHR presented two lectures: the first shed light on the “legal value of the National Action Charter and jurisprudential opinions regarding the value of rights charters and declarations issued by states.” The second lecture was entitled “The National Action Charter’s relationship to human rights and its role in promoting them.” 27. The Al-Marsad society for Human Rights also organized the second human rights forum under the slogan “Human Rights and Their Applications in the Field of Artificial Intelligence”, in contribution to raising awareness of the concept of artificial intelligence and its applications in the fields of life, and to show its impact on human rights, as well as to propose and discuss legislation supporting it. It was attended by several deputies, experts, academics, and researchers from different governorates of the Kingdom. During the forum, the NIHR presented a working paper on “The future of human rights in the age of artificial intelligence.” Eleventh: Organizing an awareness lecture for the employees of Bahrain Aluminum Company, (Alba) 28. The NIHR organized an awareness lecture for the employees of Bahrain Aluminum Company, (Alba)), on “the role of the NIHR in promoting and protecting human rights in general, and the rights of private sector employees in particular”, in activation of the NIHR’s role in promoting and disseminating a culture of human rights among all segments of society, and developing awareness of national, regional, and international standards related to human rights. 29. The lecture dealt with the law establishing the NIHR, the efforts and activities undertaken by it, the services it provides to citizens and residents, in addition to defining other national mechanisms related to the protection of human rights, as well as displaying its strategy and action plan, and the most prominent achievements it has attained in the field of human rights at the local, regional, and international levels. NIHR Bahrain- Eighth Annual Report 2020 95

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