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international human rights instruments and United Nations Treaty Bodies
recommendations (Chile);
7.
Commit fully to the implementation of the United Nations Convention on
the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (Italy);
8.
Ensure that Iraq’s legislation guarantees de jure and de facto non
discrimination against women (Mexico);
9.
Re-establish the moratorium on death penalty in all cases. If not, extend
that moratorium to the cases that are contrary to international law, including
the death penalty for sexual orientation (Spain);
10.
Abolish legal provisions allowing for reduced sentences for so-called
“honor crimes” and undertake an awareness-raising campaign (Austria);
11.
Carry-out an awareness raising campaign against domestic and gender
based violence, and, in specific terms, against offences against women for
reasons of “honor”, and amend article 128 of the Criminal Code which
identifies the commission of an offence “with honourable motives” as a
“mitigating excuse” (Spain);
12.
Suspend the application of article 128 in the Criminal Code, with a view
to revoke it (Norway);
13.
Suspend Article 128 of the Iraqi Penal Code and put in place steps to
repeal it completely (New Zealand);
14.
Repeal article 128 of the Criminal Code which identifies “the
commission of an offence with honourable motives” as a mitigating excuse
(Canada).
83.
The following recommendations did not enjoy the support of Iraq:
1.
Reduce the scope of crimes subject to the death penalty, specifically
regarding all non-violent crimes, and work towards the total abolition of the
death penalty (Norway);
2.
Establish an immediate moratorium on the death penalty, with a view to
its final abolition in the future (Belgium);
3.
Establish as a first step, a moratorium on all executions followed by a
complete abolition of the death penalty (Switzerland);
4.
Take all the necessary measures for the establishment of a moratorium
on death penalty in Iraq, as a first step towards its abolition (Uruguay);
5.
Re-introduce the de facto moratorium of the death penalty with a view to
its abolition (Italy);
6.
Re-establish a moratorium on the death penalty with a view of its
elimination (Netherlands);
7.
Reinstate the moratorium on the death penalty and proceed to its
complete abolition (Greece);
8.
Apply a moratorium on death penalty as a first step towards its effective
abolition (Argentina);
9.
Take all necessary legal steps to abolish the death penalty and, in the
meantime, reintroduce a de facto moratorium (Denmark);
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