Chapter III:
Main Issues of Direct Impact on
the Human Rights Situation in the Kingdom of Bahrain
Introduction:
The human rights situation is like other cases which are influenced by conditions and variables which
arise in society, whether those variables which carry a positive character which enhances the human
rights situation in the State, or a negative character which renders those rights amenable to violation,
while those conditions and variables could be the product of security or economic or political events
which have befallen society, or the result of violations and excesses which have afflicted society in
terms of its gains, resources and capabilities.
Hence, this Chapter will address issues of special importance which the National Institution finds
that they constitute a turning point in the human rights trajectory in the Kingdom of Bahrain, which
have influenced the efforts to promote and protect human rights, principally the role of human rights
advocates in the field of promoting and protecting human rights in addition to the rights and obligations
which rest on their shoulders; and the second issue is related to expatriate manpower which relates to
showing the actual condition of that manpower in the Kingdom of Bahrain and the challenges faced
by official and non-official quarters in this regard. The third issue pivots around the right to health
care, while the fourth issue is anchored in the right to education, given that both rights are among the
foremost economic, social and cultural rights in the domain of human rights.
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