Iraq

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Overview

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. Read more >

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Centre for South-West Asia and the Arab Region

United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)

 

News & Statements

Latest news

27 Jun 2024

Special Procedures

Scale and cycle of Iraq’s arbitrary executions may be a crime against humanity: Special Rapporteurs

04 Mar 2024

Treaty bodies

UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights issues findings on Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Mauritania, Romania, and Sweden

01 Mar 2024

Treaty bodies

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Concludes Seventy-Fifth Session after Adopting Concluding Observations on Reports of Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Mauritania, Romania and Sweden

09 Feb 2024

Treaty bodies

UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to review Romania, Mauritania, Ireland, Iraq, Indonesia and Sweden

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Latest statements & messages

29 Apr 2024

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Comment by UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani on Iraq

09 Aug 2023

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

UN Human Rights Chief ends visit to Iraq

07 Mar 2023

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Global update: High Commissioner outlines concerns in over 40 countries

07 Mar 2022

Multiple Mechanisms

Global Update: Bachelet urges inclusion to combat "sharply escalating misery and fear"

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Featured Stories

A Marsh Arab man looks at a dry ground that was covered with water near Chibayish in southern Iraq © REUTERS
24 November 2023 Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Climate change, pollution threaten Iraq’s ancient marshes

A combination of extreme heatwaves, water scarcity and pollution caused by oil extraction is creating a climate emergency in southern Iraq, where human rights activists like Jassim Al-Asadi are fighting to restore the region’s rich ecosystem.
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05 October 2021

Towards the prevention of torture in Iraqi detention facilities

In Iraq, UN Human Rights is working with authorities to prevent torture and ill-treatment of detainees.
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UN and OHCHR Reports

UN Secretary-General and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

A/HRC/30/66: Technical assistance provided to assist in the promotion and protection of human rights in Iraq

Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the human rights situation in Iraq in the light of abuses committed by the socalled Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant and associated groups

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OHCHR/UNAMI

Human Rights and Freedom of Expression: Trials in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq Human Rights in the Administration of Justice in Iraq: legal conditions and procedural safeguards to prevent torture and ill-treatment Update on Demonstrations in Iraq: Accountability for Human Rights Violations and Abuses by Unidentified Armed Elements

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Domestic Violence advocacy short film

Universal Periodic Review

Core documents for the current and previous cycles

Special Procedures

Reports

A/HRC/44/41/Add.1: Visit to Iraq - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons

A/HRC/42/42/Add.2: Visit to Austria - 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

A/HRC/38/44/Add.1: Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions on her mission to Iraq

A/HRC/38/44/Add.4: Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions on her mission to Iraq: Comments by the State - Note by the Secretariat

A/HRC/34/53/Add.1: Report of the Special Rapporteur on minority issues on her mission to Iraq

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Special Procedures country visits

Treaty Bodies

Reports

E/C.12/IRQ/CO/5: Concluding observations on the fifth periodic report of Iraq

CED/C/IRQ/OAI/1: Concluding observations

CEDAW/C/IRQ/CO/7: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women: Concluding observations on the seventh periodic report of Iraq

CRPD/C/IRQ/CO/1: Concluding observations on the initial report of Iraq (Advance Unedited Version)

CERD/C/IRQ/CO/22-25: Concluding observations on the combined twenty-second to twenty-fifth periodic reports of Iraq - Advance unedited version

CED/C/IRQ/CO/1: Iraq - Concluding observations

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Status & Reporting

Status of Ratifications Reporting Status Standing invitation to Special Procedures General Assembly Resolutions, Decisions and Chairperson's Statements Commission on Human Rights Resolutions, Decisions and Chairperson's Statements Voluntary Pledges and Commitments

External Resources

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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 22 917 9777

Field

United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)
Postal address: UNAMI, Human Rights Office, P. O. Box 121, Kheitan 83000, Kuwait
Address: UNAMI- Baghdad, Diwan School-Green Zone-International Zone, Baghdad, Iraq
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