National Institution receives Chaillot Prize for the Promotion of Human Rights from the European Union
National Institution for Human Rights received the Chaillot Prize for the Promotion of Human Rights in the GCC region for 2014 from the European Union's mission to the Kingdom of Bahrain in a ceremony held in Manama in conjunction with the celebration of the international community of the International Day of Human Rights on the 10th December every year.
EU mission accredited to the Kingdom has announced earlier that upon the nomination and support from the embassies of the European Union accredited to the Kingdom of Bahrain, It has been decided to award the National Institution for Human Rights Chaillot Prize for the Promotion of Human Rights in the Arabian Gulf in 2014 jointly with the General Secretariat of the grievances of the Ministry of Interior.
The Chaillot Prize Has been awarded to the National Institution for Human Rights in recognition of its outstanding efforts on the promotion and protection of human rights in Bahrain, taking into account the human rights standard of the national institution and the first annual report of the National Institution for Human Rights for its comprehensiveness and clear observance of the human rights situation in the Kingdom, as well as effective and constructive recommendations for constitutional institutions in Bahrain on the need to act, reform and overcome the inadequacy and deficiencies in important areas of human rights in accordance with international human rights standards.
"Chaillot Prize," is named so after the Chaillot Palace in Paris, which lived the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations on December 10, 1948, The award is counted as a European confidence certificate on the serious and effective steps taken by the National Institution for Human Rights in building humanity by implementing the international obligations signed and ratified by Bahrain in the field of human rights.
