The Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights said on (04-24-2022), the US State Department's report on the human rights situation in Iraq is concerning, and the Iraqi government should reconsider the information it contains.
The observatory closely studied the report, which discusses human rights situation in Iraq of 2021, and on that premise, advises Mr. Mustafa Al- Kadhimi's government to check up on the information it contained concerning violations and crimes committed against Iraqi civilians.
The report produced by US State Department highlighted the killings, kidnappings and threats against activists and journalists.
The file of assassinations and political threats, according to the Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights, is the most serious challenge Iraqis have faced in the last two years.
The report revealed enforced disappearances of social actors and civilians, which the Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights had previously documented, and urged the authorities to seek to limit them and hold perpetrators accountable.
The US report repeated a warning provided last year by the Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights in an extensive report funded by the European Union, but was ignored by the Iraqi authorities.
The Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights calls on the Iraqi government to discuss the report, which contains worrying information about the reality of human rights in the country, and expresses its willingness to provide any advice or services to Iraqi state institutions in supporting their efforts to enhance human rights in Iraq.
Such reports assist the government in reducing the time it takes to diagnose violations and crimes, as well as facilitating the development of a national policy to promote human rights in the country.
The Iraqi government cannot ignore such report, which relied on various sources in documenting violations. This report t reveals more about violations in the country than civil society organizations and independent institutions can discuss for fear of endangering the lives of their cadres and employees.
We reiterate our call to the government of Mr. Al-Kadhimi to expedite the discussion of this report with High Commission for Human Rights, Human Rights Committee in the House of Representatives, and relevant civil society organizations, as well as Human Rights Department of Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in the presence of Human Rights Office of the United Nations Mission (UNAMI).
We maintain that the human rights file necessitates complementary labor, as well as independent skills and brains free of any political, religious, national, sectarian, or regional biases, or any other sort of discrimination.
The Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights also requests the US State Department to hand along the report to the Iraqi government and to support it in improving the country's human rights situation.
