Ninth: Awareness program on the constitution and human rights (My Rights) 35.  The NIHR, in partnership with the Supreme Council for Women, the Bahrain Institute for Political Development, and the Institute of Judicial and Legal Studies, organized, in 2019, the awareness program on constitution and human rights for government institutions and civil society organizations, the third edition of “My Rights” training program, which started in 2017. The 2019 program aimed to develop the culture of employees of the public sector and civil society organizations about constitutional, legal and social rights and duties, as well as the legislation related to the legal status of women in various fields, and to transform such into a culture, lifestyle, and daily behavior through their work in these institutions and organizations. 36. The program covered the following topics: separation of powers in the Bahraini political system, the constitutional guarantees established for protecting public rights and freedoms in the Kingdom of Bahrain, the role and competencies of the Supreme Council for Women in supporting the advancement of Bahraini women, constitutional oversight of laws and legislation, the role of the legislative authority in monitoring the application of laws supporting women and family, the rule of legal legitimacy, the role of national mechanisms in promoting and protecting human rights in the Kingdom of Bahrain, the legislative competence of the National Assembly in the Kingdom of Bahrain, parliamentary oversight to guarantee the implementation of international human rights standards in the Kingdom, parliamentary oversight tools, legal immunity, the role of the national model in integrating women’s needs of governance of implementation of equal opportunities, normative international agreements, knowledge management in the field of political participation, the role of parliamentary diplomacy in foreign policy of the Kingdom of Bahrain, and the role of the relevant committees of the Shura Council and the Council of Representatives in ratifying international human rights conventions. Tenth: The Legal Clinic and Human Rights at the University of Bahrain 37. The NIHR has actively participated in the “Legal Clinic and Human Rights at the University of Bahrain”, which is a practical training program for students of the College of Law to acquire skills in the field of human rights. The NIHR held workshops and provided visual presentations on its role in the promotion and protection of human rights. The program was fifteen weeks long; it addressed the NIHR’s competence in promoting and protecting human rights by explaining the mechanism for receiving complaints and the relevant procedures, providing legal assistance and advice, in addition to its role in monitoring human rights violations. 38. Given the role of the NIHR in spreading and promoting a culture of respect for human rights among members of society; and in order to activate the Memorandum of Understanding with the Royal University for Women, the NIHR received a group of female students of the College of Law at the Royal University for Women to attend a program on supporting human rights. The program 36

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