Chapter Three Major Issues that have a Direct Impact on the Human Rights Situation in the Kingdom of Bahrain Preface and Partitioning: 1. It is recognized that the human rights situation, like other situations, are affected by conditions and changes in society, whether those changes are of a positive nature that promote the human rights situation in the country, or of a negative nature making those rights vulnerable to being violated. These circumstances and changes may be the result of security, political or economic factors that struck the community in its entity, or a result of violations and transgressions affecting its capabilities and achievements. 2. This Chapter will address a number of issues that have a direct impact on the human rights situation. These issues were chosen due to the fact that the rights associated with them got a large number of complaints received by the NIHR, whether from persons whose freedom is restricted or from ordinary cases. In addition, they were drawn from the aid cases provided by the NIHR or from the daily monitoring of cases carried out by the NIHR during this year. 3. Five rights were selected and divided into five topics, namely the right of ordinary people and those whose freedom is restricted to enjoy the highest attainable standard of health (the right to health); the right to communicate with the outside world; the right to physical and moral integrity; the right to an adequate standard of living (the right to work); and finally, the right to recognition of legal personality (the right to a nationality). 4. Then, for each topic, the national and international bases relevant to every one of the five human rights will be highlighted in a first section. Next, a selected synopsis for a number of complaints received by the NIHR, the legal aid it provided, a number of cases that were monitored, and the procedures that were carried out by the NIHR in this regard, will be presented in a second section. 5. Noting that of the rest of the rights, which the NIHR has received complaints about, provided aid to the complainants, or monitored such through the daily monitoring system, can be found in Chapter Four of this report. Ninth Annual Report of the NIHR 93