NIHR Launches a Number of Human Rights Books in concurrence with the World Book Day
In concurrence with the World Book Day, which falls on the 23rd of April every year, the National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR) launched 3 books of the Human Rights Culture Series and added them to its library collection.
The first book is entitled “Rights of the Employee under the Bahraini Labor Law and the International, Arab and Human Rights Work Levels” by Dr. Salah Mohamed Ahmed Diab, which contains 5 chapters that deal with the right to work as well as financial and non-financial rights of an employee, employee’s rights after termination of employment contract and the guarantees of the fulfillment of such rights. The second book is entitled “Human Rights in the Code of Criminal Procedure” by Dr. Mahmoud Ahmed Taha, which contains 11 chapters that deal with the human right not to humiliate a person’s dignity, not to restrict his/her freedom and to respect the inviolability of his/her private life, the right of an accused person to be tried before his/her natural judge, to exercise his/her right to defense, to have his/her innocence assumed and to undergo a fair trial, the human right to challenge sentences, the right of an accused person to the invalidation of an unlawful criminal proceeding and to the exclusion of unlawful evidence by the court, and the right of an accused person to the termination of criminal proceeding and penalty by prescription. The third book is entitled “NIHR in the Kingdom of Bahrain” by Dr. Ibrahim Ali Badawi Al-Sheikh, which contains 3 chapters that deal with human rights “concept and frameworks”, the national human rights institutions, the NIHR in the Kingdom of Bahrain in terms of its origin, composition, missions, terms of reference and independence as well as the mechanism of receiving complaints, monitoring, national and international cooperation in the human rights area, action plan and future prospects.
Hard copies of these books are available at the NIHR’s headquarters in the Seef District or on its website www.nihr.org.bh.
