Meeting

The National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR)’s Committee on Civil and Political Rights held its 17th regular meeting under the chairpersonship of Mrs. Jameela Salman. The meeting was attended by Committee Member Dr. Bader Mohamed Adel.

The Committee discussed the request referred to it by the esteemed Council of Representatives to show NIHR’s opinions on the Draft Law to modify some of the Bahraini Nationality Law issued in 1963, which includes a proposal to give Bahraini nationality to those who were born in Bahrain for Bahraini mother and whose Bahraini father has been deprived of citizenship and was not given any other one.

It is worth mentioning that NIHR’s Committee on Civil and Political Rights is one of NIHR’s  3 permanent specific Committees, whose work is focused on developing proposals and recommendations in everything that aims at enhancement and protection of civil and political human rights, reviewing legal guarantees to practicing such rights, following-up the implementation of relevant international conventions and treaties, examining convenience of legislative and regulatory stipulations and articles of regional and international treaties on human rights issues, studying applicable legislations and codes in Bahrain on civil and political rights, recommending appropriate amendments thereof, giving opinion on the extent of their compliance with international human rights standards and providing necessary proposals thereon, recommending issuance of new legislations on human rights and contributing to the corresponding draft reports that will be presented by the Kingdom of Bahrain on a periodic basis in this regard.