A/HRC/43/14 141. Kurdistan Region had adopted Law No. 8 of 2011, which protected women rights. The Kurdistan Region government had cooperated with the Ministry of Justice to combat violence against women, and had helped set up 39 camps for internally displaced persons in Kurdistan. A new camp was being built in order to host, initially, 14,000 Syrian refugees. Kurdistan Region had taken a number of measures to combat former Daesh combatants and opened rehabilitation centres for victims of Daesh, especially women. The Kurdistan Region authorities had reportedly made 168 visits to detention centres in Kurdistan. The death penalty had been suspended for the past 10 years in Kurdistan Region, allowing death sentences to be commuted to life sentences. 142. The Ministry of Justice had adopted a series of measures to improve coordination between government bodies concerning enforced disappearance. 143. The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs had established 42 new centres to provide health support to victims and disadvantaged families. The Government had started to pay monthly salaries to 123,000 persons with disabilities. People who had lost their jobs were also entitled to pensions. 144. The highest authorities in Iraq had stressed that the peaceful popular protests that were ongoing at the time of the review were a legitimate reform movement. The Government had reaffirmed its position that it would refrain from resorting to stringent security measures and ensure accountability for all who were found guilty of excessive use of force. 145. The Government had stressed that it intended to identify and hold accountable infiltrators and those responsible for violence resulting in the death or injury of security forces and demonstrators or destruction of public and private properties. 146. The Government intended to enact a new electoral law enhancing youth participation in parliament and their contribution to policymaking. II. Conclusions and/or recommendations 147. The following recommendations will be examined by Iraq, which will provide responses in due time, but no later than the forty-third session of the Human Rights Council: 147.1 Ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (Senegal); 147.2 Continue efforts to accede to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (Indonesia); 147.3 Become a party to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (Seychelles); 147.4 Positively consider acceding to the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (Kyrgyzstan); 147.5 Continue efforts towards ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure (Slovakia); 147.6 Leste); Ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Timor- 147.7 Ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Austria) (France) (Liechtenstein); 147.8 Sign and ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Slovenia); 9

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