1. Forming a technical legal unit at the General Secretariat to undertake reviewing national legislation and proposing the necessary legislative amendments to such legislation according to the established opinions and decisions of the international human rights law. 2. Forming a part-time legal counselling team of specialists in drafting legislation and law-making fields to make use of their expertise in preparing bills and proposed law amendments, and drafting the necessary explanatory memoranda. 3. Strengthening the relationship with the Legislative Authority, including the Coucil of Representatives and Shura Council, in the areas related to NIHR functions, and establishing communication mechanisms with the competent committees and concerned departments in both councils. 4. Strengthening the relationship and cooperation with the ministries concerned with legislation and human rights in the Executive Authority, especially those concerned with justice, education, internal affairs, health, labour and human rights. 5. Recommending the importance of the legislative harmonization between the national legal system and international obligations in the field of human rights in order to achieve the national interest. THEME III: PARTICIPATION IN THE PREPARATION OF AN EXTENSIVE NATIONAL PROGRAM FOR HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION Human rights education is one of the most fundamental pillars for achieving the desired objectives in the field of human rights, both in terms of the introduction of human rights and development of awareness thereof in a way that leads to a positive impact on behaviours and confinement of negative phenomena. This also aims to ensure the automatic integration of the principles and criteria of human rights in the development plans, claims, public policies and legislation. Means of communication: “education, information and culture” are the essential tools for achieving the goals of human rights education. NIHR will benefit from the methodologies of United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education3 and the World Programme for Human Rights Education4 successively adopted by the UN since 1995. This will be done through the following: 1. Cooperating with the ministry concerned with education affairs in order to develop the integration of human rights in education, including: a. Teaching human rights in the curricula of primary and secondary education. b. Reviewing the curricula in general with the aim of improving the content related to human rights values, and changes related thereto, and ensuring 3 Resolution No. A/RES/49/184 adopted by the UN General Assembly, 23 December 1994, proclaiming the ten-year period from 1995 to 2004 as the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education 4 Resolution No. A/RES/59/113 adopted by the UN General Assembly, 10 December 2004, on World Program for Human Rights Education. 11