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Iraq

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Iraq and UN Charter-based Bodies

Iraq and UN Treaty Bodies

Special Procedures
Country-specific procedure

Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iraq (1991-2004)

Country visits by Special Procedures

Most recent Special Procedures' reports

Report of the Special Rapporteur on minority issues - Mission to Iraq (A/HRC/34/53/Add.1)

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced - Mission to Iraq (A/HRC/32/35/Add.1)

Report of the Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination - Mission to Iraq (A/HRC/18/32/Add.4)

Report of the Representative of the Secretary-General on the human rights of internally displaced persons - Visit to Iraq (A/HRC/16/43/Add.1)

Report of the Special Rapporteur, Andreas Mavrommatis, on the situation of human rights in Iraq (E/CN.4/2002/44)

Most recent reports by the UN Secretary-General, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Secretariat

Promotion and protection of human rights in Iraq - Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (A/HRC/30/66)

>>Full list of documents in the Charter-based bodies Database

Main page of the Special Procedures

Most recent concluding observations

Human Rights Committee
Concluding observations (2015) CCPR/C/IRQ/CO/5

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Concluding observations (2015) E/C.12/IRQ/CO/4

Committee on Enforced Disappearances
Concluding observations (2015) CED/C/IRQ/CO/1

Committee against Torture
Concluding observations (2015) CAT/C/IRQ/CO/1

Committee on the Rights of the Child
Concluding observations (2015) CRC/C/IRQ/CO/2-4

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children child prostitution and child pornography
Concluding observations (2015) CRC/C/OPSC/IRQ/CO/1

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Concluding observations (2014) CERD/C/IRQ/CO/15-21

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Concluding observations (2014) CEDAW/C/IRQ/CO/4-6

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict
Concluding observations () CRC/C/OPAC/IRQ/CO/1

>>Full list of documents in the Treaty Body Database

OHCHR in Iraq

The Human Rights Office of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) was established in 2004. UNAMI’s chief human rights officer also represents the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Iraq.
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Contact Information

Headquarters

Field Operations and Technical Cooperation Division (FOTCD)
Contact is in Geneva, Switzerland.

Middle East and North Africa Section
Tel. +41 22 928 9153

Field

United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)
Mr. Francesco Motta,
Chief Human Rights Section
Fax: 0019173673615
Postal address: UNAMI, Human Rights Office, P. O. Box 121, Kheitan 83000, Kuwait
Address: UNAMI- Baghdad, Diwan School-Green Zone-International Zone, Baghdad, Iraq
Email: motta@un.org
Web: http://www.uniraq.org/

Feature stories

ISIL ‘deliberately targeting’ civilians in eastern Mosul
24-01-2017

UN rights chief: Scale of civilian suffering “numbing” in Iraq
11-11-2016

07-06-2016

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