A/HRC/43/14/Add.1 C. 129 Noted 131 Noted 135 Noted 136 Noted 137 Noted 139 Noted 141 Noted 142 Noted 143 Noted 144 Noted 146 Noted 147 Noted 149 Noted 150 Noted 153 Noted Recommendations partially accepted (partial support) 109 Partial support The recommendation is supported in that steps are taken to investigate and end violence against, and killings of, all persons, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons. Indeed, they are human beings and have the right to life, and there can be no punishment outside the law and the courts. However, this does not amount to legal recognition of homosexuality not does it mean that, as such, they have rights. 155 Partial support The recommendation is supported in that corporal punishment is prohibited in all circumstances save where corporal punishment is taken to mean the death penalty. 166 Partial support The recommendation is supported in that all armed forces deployed on the Nineveh plains are under the command of the Government of Iraq. However, note is taken of the implicit suggestion that those forces are, in fact, the popular mobilization forces, peshmerga and tribal forces, which are helping to combat Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). 170 Partial support The recommendation is supported as concerns full investigation of all reports of human rights abuses, irrespective of the basis for which the investigation is launched; however, this does not entail any recognition of homosexuality. 178 Partial support The recommendation is supported in that steps are taken to investigate and end violence against, and killings of, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons. Indeed, they are human beings and have the right to life, and there can be no punishment outside the law and the courts. However, note is taken of the enactment of laws that would allow lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex persons to practice their sexual orientation. The reason for this lies in the conservative nature of Iraqi society and in the teachings of Islam and of other fundamental religions. 10 GE.19-22528