NIHR receives Deputy British Ambassador
Ms. Maria Khoury, Chairperson of the National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR), received Mr. Stuart Summers, Deputy Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the Kingdom of Bahrain, and Mrs. Sherrill Edice, Head of the Department of Political Affairs, Media and Public Relations of the British Embassy, at the NIHR’s headquarters in Seef District, where she welcomed them and expressed her appreciation for the important role of the British Embassy in enhancing bilateral cooperation in the areas of human rights culture protection and promotion.
During the meeting, Ms. Khoury explained the role of the NIHR during the Coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19), including the promotion and protection of human rights in general and the rights of expatriate works in particular, through its field visits to isolation, quarantine, correction, rehabilitation and detention centres and places and its close follow-up for the precautionary measures taken by the Kingdom of Bahrain to combat the spread of the pandemic and their impact on accessing human rights.
For his part, the British Deputy Ambassador expressed his appreciation for the NIHR’s efforts to promote and protect human rights in the Kingdom of Bahrain, stressing the British Embassy’s readiness to provide all support for the NIHR to achieve its goals and competencies to achieve common goals.
