Introduction 1. The NIHR submits its parallel report on the national report of Bahrain on the measures taken by the Kingdom to implement and enforce the provisions of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child relating to the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography (OPSC) which the Kingdom of Bahrain joined under Law No. (19) of 2004, pursuant to its competence contained in its establishment Law No. (26) of 2014 and amended by Decree-Law No. (20) of 2016.1 2. The NIHR appreciates the efforts made by the Kingdom in submitting its report on the measures it has taken to implement the provisions of the OPSC, believing in the importance and effectiveness of this international mechanism towards everything that would enhance and protect human rights at the national level, and the fulfillment of their international obligations arising from the ratification or accession to the core international human rights instruments. 3. The NIHR submits its parallel report based on the national report under discussion before the CRC contained in Document No. (CRC/C/OPSC/BHR/1), and the concluding observations of the Committee contained in Document No. (CRC/C/BHR/CO/2-3), and the guidelines on the reports that the state parties are required to submit to the Committee contained in document No. (CRC/C/OPSC/2) as a methodology for writing this report, dealing with the most prominent rights approved by the OP annexed to it, which the NIHR believes that it has cast a shadow over the practical reality and touched the reality of children's rights during the past years, leading to presenting a number of recommendations that it deems appropriate to advance the reality of children's rights in the Kingdom of Bahrain. First: General guidelines 1. Report preparation process 1.1 The NIHR commends the existing cooperation between various government agencies and civil society institutions (CSI) in order to consolidate the principle of partnership in the preparation of this report, and the participation of stakeholders in expressing their opinions and observations, as the Child National Committee (the author of the national report) was aware of the NIHR’s observations on more than occasion during the preparation of this report. 1.2 The NIHR hopes that the participation of CSIs working in the field of human rights, and the field of children rights in particular, will be more effective in preparing the national report, through the report-preparing body managing national consultations, similar to the 1 To view Law No. (26) of 2014 establishing the NIHR, amended by Decree-Law No. (20) of 2016: https://www.nihr.org.bh/EN/MediaHandler/GenericHandler/2022/002_NIHR_Law_amend.pdf 1