UN Human Rights Council

The Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental body within the UN system made up of 47 States responsible for strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe. The Council was created by the UN General Assembly on 15 March 2006 with the main purpose of addressing situations of human rights violations and make recommendations on them Website: www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/hrc/pages/hrcindex.aspx

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Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions on her mission to Iraq 5 June 2018 \| Publisher: UN Human Rights Council \| Document type: Country Reports
Report of the Special Rapporteur on minority issues on her mission to Iraq 9 January 2017 \| Publisher: UN Human Rights Council \| Document type: Mission Reports
Report of the Special Rapporteur on minority issues on her mission to Iraq 9 January 2017 \| Publisher: UN Human Rights Council \| Document type: Mission Reports
Communications, cases examined, observations and other activities conducted by the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances 1 December 2016 \| Publisher: UN Human Rights Council \| Document type: Sessional Reports
"They came to destroy": ISIS Crimes Against the Yazidis 15 June 2016 \| Publisher: UN Human Rights Council \| Document type: Country Reports
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons on his mission to Iraq 5 April 2016 \| Publisher: UN Human Rights Council \| Document type: Mission Reports
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism 16 June 2015 \| Publisher: UN Human Rights Council \| Document type: Thematic Reports
Technical assistance and capacity-building in strengthening human rights in Iraq in the light of the abuses committed by Daesh and associated terrorist groups : resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council 8 April 2015 \| Publisher: UN Human Rights Council \| Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations
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 so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant and associated groups 13 March 2015 \| Publisher: UN Human Rights Council \| Document type: Country Reports
Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review : Iraq 12 December 2014 \| Publisher: UN Human Rights Council \| Document type: Country Reports

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