enabling them to effectuate their assigned role under the aegis of legal protection, and within a margin of freedom, and without obstacles hindering their work. 7. Accordingly, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) defined the phrase (Defenders in the field of human rights) as “a term used to describe people who, individually or with others, act to promote or protect human rights. Human rights defenders are identified above all by what they do and it is through a description of their actions and of some of the contexts in which they work that the term can best be explained.”9 8. Moreover, the special rapporteur concerning with the situation of human rights advocates referred to the same meanings: “Human rights defenders are people who, individually or with others, act to promote or protect human rights. Human rights defenders are identified above all by what they do and it is through a description of their actions and of some of the contexts in which they work that the term can best be explained. ”10 9. Even though the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders did not include a directly a definition of the human rights advocates, reading Article 1 of the Declaration which provides that: “Everyone has the right, individually and in association with others, to promote and to strive for the protection and realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms at the national and international levels” yields the observation that the Article explained the nature of the activity of the human rights advocates, and this stipulation or text intrinsically expounds the concept and signification of the phrase “human rights advocates” through stating the nature and field of activity. 10. And a reading of the text of the UN Declaration on human rights defenders leads to observing that it encourages all without exception to become human rights advocates, where some of its provisions, in Article 10,11, and 18 delineate the broad outlines of the responsibilities of all without exception for the sake of promoting and protecting human rights, and to preserve democracy and its institutions, and not to violate the human rights of others, but Article (11) bears a special reference to the responsibilities of persons who practice professions which may impinge on the basic rights of others. In other words, the Declaration does not require a particular organization, or the recognition of any quarter, to acquire the capacity of human rights defender, but rather asks and urges everyone to shoulder this mission. 11. At the level of national legislation the legal system in the Kingdom of Bahrain does not provide an explicit stipulation that regulates and governs the activity of the defenders or activists in the field of human rights, but through examining a constellation of basic rights and freedoms recognized by the Constitution of the Kingdom of Bahrain, particularly as relates to the freedom of opinion and the right to expression, the right to peaceful assembly, and the right to organize, it may be observed that they represent tools enabling the advocates to effectuate their role in the field of promoting and protecting human rights, as rights for all without any discrimination for whatever reason. 9 Official website of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.. 10 Report of the special rapporteur concerned with human rights advocates submitted to the UN General Assembly in Session (63), Document Number (288/63/A). 65