United Nations General Assembly A/HRC/38/44/Add.1 Distr.: General 20 June 2018 Original: English Human Rights Council Thirty-eighth session 18 June–6 July 2018 Agenda item 3 Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions on her mission to Iraq* Note by the secretariat The Secretariat has the honour to transmit to the Human Rights Council the report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions on her official visit to Iraq (14–23 November 2017). The Special Rapporteur examined responses to the multiple violations of the right to life perpetrated, in particular in the context of the conflict that opposed the Iraqi authorities to so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and other armed groups, as well as official responses to allegations of violations of the right to life by Government and associated forces. The Special Rapporteur focused specifically on steps taken — judicial measures, policies and action implemented — to hold ISIL and other actors to account for these massive and grave violations and formulated a series of recommendations addressed to the Government and other relevant actors. * The present report was submitted after the deadline in order to reflect the most recent developments. GE.18-10055(E) 