His Royal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa has affirmed that human rights achievements and positive developments have reached advanced stages in the kingdom, expressing pride in Bahrain's commitment to protecting all the rights of its citizens.
He emphasised that the government's efforts to ensure civil and political rights and support and protect the economic, social and cultural ones have been recognised by the International Community, and exposed the distortion and falsity campaigns staged against the kingdom to affect its human rights situation.
"Stand up for human rights, particularly the right of the Bahraini citizens to live without fear of terrorism and saboteurs, and the right of your country to enjoy security and stability," he said.
This came as HRH Premier received here today the National Institution for Human Rights (NIHR)'s Chairman Dr. Abdulaziz Abul and members, who handed over to him the NIHR's annual report.
HRH the Prime Minister highlighted the government's comprehensive strategy in dealing with human rights, which is based on all rights, including the requirements of decent living through adopting citizen-oriented economic, social and service programmes.
He outlined the government's vision on promoting human rights' values and principles through the creation of an economic system that ensures the citizens tranquility and stability in the present and future.
He stressed that Bahrain has enhanced its cooperation with all international human rights organisations with which it shares sincere desire to consolidate the principles of human rights, and use them as a tool to build nations, and not a pretext to disseminate fallacies that undermine their security and stability.
He said that right to security, safety and stability has been emphasised by all religions, and, therefore, the government will not tolerate any efforts to affect it.
The NIHR's Chairman and members expressed pride in submitting the NIHR's first annual report to HRH Premier, praising his directives on human rights in Bahrain and visions on the government's way of dealing with them in a comprehensive approach.
They affirmed that HRH Premier is statesman of the first class, who had devised a strategy of dealing with human rights in a comprehensive way based on improving the citizens' standards of living by ensuring their right to live in security and stability and providing them quality services in all fields.