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NIHR is participating in Bahrain Sports Day

Ms. Maria Khoury, Chairperson of the National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR), on behalf of members of the Council of Commissioners and all NIHR Secretariat General’s staff, expressed her deep thanks and appreciation to the wise leadership for allocating a special day for employees’ participation in sports activities within the Kingdom of Bahrain's celebrations of the Sports Day, stressing that such activities reflect the keenness of the wise leadership to preserve the importance of sports, being an inherent human right, promote the concept of sports for all and raise awareness of the importance of sports and its role in the life of the individual and society, noting the need to harness sports for the purposes of development, peace, mutual understanding, and competition for positive construction.

This was on the sidelines of the NIHR’s participation in Bahrain Sports Day with the participation of a number of members of the Council of Commissioners and staff of the Secretariat General of the NIHR, in support of this Sports Day and as an encouragement of the exercise of sports to promote the concept of sports for all as a lifestyle in the community, where the NIHR Secretariat General organized a sports event that included a number of games and recreational sports activities that everyone interacted with.  All the participants expressed their hope to organize more sports and social activities in the future, which parallel between the health of the soul and the health of the body.