Najwa Abdul Latif Janahi
The Ministry of Industry and Trade in the Kingdom of Bahrain is making clear efforts to educate consumers about their rights of all ages and social segments, there are laws and legislations that regulate the rights and duties of both the consumer and the merchant, as it secured multiple channels that the consumer can submit his complaint to the Ministry to protect his rights from being lost, and I have stopped news about activities organized by the Ministry of Industry and Trade in the Kingdom of Bahrain on the fifteenth of this April about the month of April 15th The twentieth Gulf Week for Consumer Protection, in conjunction with the activities of consumer protection bodies and departments in the countries of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, and these activities emphasize the importance of the unified Gulf awareness role in the field of consumer rights to protect consumer rights, in light of the accelerating developments and challenges witnessed by the consumer sector at the local and regional levels.
Among the segments of the targeted process of awareness to protect the consumer rights for this year, the children’s segment, through the inauguration of the initiative of “the small consumer and the small merchant”, with the aim of instilling the principles of consumer awareness and commercial responsibility in children from a young age, and introducing them to the basics of the relationship between the consumer and the merchant, and the rights and duties of each party, and I see that educating the child about the dangers surrounding him as a consumer, during the shopping process or the term “small consumer” is Much greater than the issue of awareness of the relationship between the merchant and the consumer, due to the different culture of consumption and its methods in the present and the future.
We are dealing with a consumed child in virtual markets, as it roams the electronic markets that are filled with comic and displayed on their mobile screens, through various electronic platforms, including what is known by the people, and dealt with him and gained their confidence, and some of which are unknown, so the customer hesitates in dealing with him, we address a child so that he may not touch the paper and metal cash never, he is dealing with electronic payment For him, money is numbers that appear on the screen of his mobile phone, we address children roaming digital stock markets and digital currencies, and they exchange them, and you find them selling and buying in the world of electronic space, we are dealing with children who roam dark markets during which they may turn overnight into a commodity that can be for sale and bargaining to turn this innocent child into a victim, this is the world of the small consumer today Complex virtual, we have to prepare it and its quality to deal with its modern world in a professional manner, and here the role of specialists in protecting the child from the risks of consumption and financial transactions of all kinds in the virtual world emerge, whether in electronic shopping operations, electronic payment or electronic investment to be a smart consumer, depending on the authorities competent to protect children from electronic exploitation in all fields, the most important of which is the field of shopping, marketing and investment, and form Protecting them by providing awareness programs in this field, and one of the important bodies that provide protection for the small consumer in the electronic space unit of child protection in the electronic space of the Ministry of Interior, and this unit undertakes the protection and awareness of the child from all different electronic space crimes and keep pace with the rapid electronic development witnessed by the world, as it works to provide prevention and protection for the young from falling victim to many crimes that occur in the electronic space, whether the child is a victim in these crimes or accused Committing a crime in multiple areas, including dealing with electronic currencies, shares, e -shopping, and others. The small consumer needs awareness in the field of electronic space, as this is the market that deals with it … and you are safe.
