for Environment were presented targeting the public and private sectors, as well as other lectures aimed at consolidating environmental concepts, encouraging a change in the consumption pattern, and adopting the concept of responsible production and consumption. More than (46) lectures were presented during the year 2019. b) Furthermore, the Council conducted a number of awareness programs for a number of entities, such as Al-Amal Special Education Institute, the Green Environment Program for the employees of the Ministry of Interior, the joint program with the Supreme Council for Women on the role of women and the family in the preservation of the environment, and the Environmental Exhibition in cooperation with Gulf Air. In addition, scientific materials, educational publications, and electronic boards were prepared and published through various media platforms aiming to open channels of support of outreach and awareness programs. (7) Text of recommendation and summary of the competent authority’s reply to NIHR: Call upon the competent authorities to raise, on an ongoing basis, the awareness of anglers on the safer methods for fishing shrimp that preserve the environment, and at the same time do not negatively affect their income.  Summary of the Ministry of Works, Municipalities Affairs, and Urban Planning reply to NIHR: The Ministry did not provide a reply on this recommendation.  Summary of the Supreme Council for Environment reply to NIHR: The Council stated that the substance of the recommendation is not within its mandate. Section Two: Human rights and promotion of the values of tolerance and peaceful coexistence (1) Text of recommendation and summary of the competent authority’s reply to NIHR: Call upon the competent authorities to include the terms “tolerance and peaceful coexistence between sects and religions” in the provisions of the Penal Code, and other complementary laws that criminalize the acts that encroach upon these values. Ninth Annual Report of the NIHR 46