Situation of human rights in Iraq : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Situation of human rights in Iraq

Calls upon the Government of Iraq to cooperate with UN human rights mechanisms, in particular by receiving a return visit by the Special Rapporteur to Iraq and allowing the stationing of human rights monitors throughout Iraq pursuant to the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and the Commission on Human Rights; strongly condemns the systematic, widespread and extremely grave violations of human rights and of international humanitarian law by the Government of Iraq, resulting in all-pervasive repression and oppression; calls upon the Government of Iraq to abrogate all decrees that prescribe cruel and inhuman punishment or treatment, including mutilations, and to ensure that torture and cruel punishment and treatment no longer occur, and also to abrogate laws and procedures, including Revolution Command Council Decree No. 840 of 4 Nov. 1986, that penalize free expression and to ensure that the genuine will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of the State; demands that the Government of Iraq bring the actions of its military and security forces into conformity with the standards of international law, in particular those of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; urges the Government of Iraq to respect the rights of all ethnic and religious groups and to cease immediately its repressive practices aimed at the Iraqi Kurds, Assyrians, Turkomen and the population of the southern marsh areas, and to ensure the personal integrity and freedoms of the Shi'a and their religious establishment.

Adopted 103-3-56, 85th meeting

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Adopted at the 85th plenary meeting, 9 Dec. 1998.