United Nations confirmed that Iraq has become the first country in the region to implement human rights
Sunday, 5 حزيران 2011 10:21 GMT
Alsumaria News / Baghdad
The head of the United Nations Mission in Iraq, Ad Melkert, Sunday, that Iraq has become the first country in the region Bpttbaiq human rights, noting that the Iraqi government operated under recommendation 133 of the United Nations in 2010 and sought to develop them.
Said Ad Melkert, in a speech during the Conference of the recommendations of the Human Rights held, today, building the Iraqi parliament and attended "Alsumaria News", "Human rights are indivisible and ends, where the constitution guarantees the right of speech and freedom of expression," asserting that "there are a number of the important recommendations are the subject of human rights in the Iraqi constitution. "
He said Melkert that "there are many donor countries that helped Iraq to reach the ranks of human rights to become the first country in the region, the question of human rights," asserting that "Iraq has the required procedures and create the appropriate atmosphere and placed in the Constitution, one of the important steps that staffed by Iraqis and respected by the country's politicians. "
The representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, "the steps taken by the Iraqi government to make it the subject of human rights which are the obligations of an international task from within the national priorities," noting that "there are 133 the recommendation of the United Nations in 2010, the Iraqi government to work under and the quest for development."
The Melkert "The United Nations has worked to develop a good project, unique in Iraq, and has to work with all institutions of government and joints to guarantee human rights and work with civil society organizations," adding that "the issue of human rights in Iraq is going well, and place them in special and high priority , particularly in the Iraqi parliament. "
The Ministry of the Iraqi Human Rights declared, in the 26 of last April, will leave them draft a national plan to work during the next three years, as indicated that the plan includes a number of themes relating to the most important challenges and opportunities facing human rights in Iraq, confirmed that the plan that contributed to the preparation of expert from the United Nations will contribute to the human rights situation improved significantly.
It was established and the Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights in 2003, to take up cases of abuse of human rights, which citizens are exposed, as the follow-up files of prisoners, and the definition of citizens of their rights.
The Ministry of the Iraqi Human Rights announced in the seventh of last April, will leave them a worksheet from the five themes to promote a culture of human rights for the next phase of the current year 2011, confirmed near completion of a draft government report on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and Convention on the Rights Child, completed the necessary preparations for the convening of the National Congress for the issuance of a draft National Plan for Human Rights, in cooperation with the United Nations Mission UNAMI.
The Commission on Human Rights in the Iraqi parliament, on the twentieth of last March, that Iraq lacks the culture of human rights, stressing the need to teach this material in primary schools, training the protections of prisons and the security forces.
The UN Human Rights Council of the United Nations, based in Geneva, had reviewed in the 16 of February of last year 2010, the official report submitted by Iraq to the Council about the reality of human rights, within the universal periodic review mechanism of the Council for the human rights records of all 192 Member States of the United Nations, and at least once every four years.
Iraq confirmed in his report positive developments in strengthening the reality of human rights and the reduction of violations and breaches of causes attributed to the many challenges, including the last deposition. While Observers and members of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations to the presence of many of the files are still pending, and there were many violations that do not these deposits and the challenges they occur in any relationship.
Iraq has been since 25 February, demonstrations traveled around the country calling for reform and change and the eradication of rampant corruption in the joints of the State, organized by the youth of university students and intellectuals are independent across social networking sites on the Internet, at the time still calls escalate for demonstrations across the country until the investigation services in full .
During the demonstrations and the killing and injury to many of the demonstrators and security forces, as well as the arrest of a number of young protesters, recorded in the province of Sulaymaniyah in northern Iraq, the largest number in the fall of the dead and wounded.
The Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations human rights in Iraq WK accused in a report to the United Nations, on the third of June, the Iraqi government not to implement most of the international conventions and treaties on human rights, women and children, prisoners and others.
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