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special system of criminal justice database to prevent any case of disappearance in the
context of criminal justice.
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With regard to paragraph29, the Iraqi Government has established a
committee to look into the cases of enforced disappearances, and opening a
department in the Ministry of the Interior to receive such applications and a
division in the Legal Department of the Ministry of Justice to follow up the
procedures for searching on the persons whom they arbitrarily disappeared.
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The Department of Mass Graves in the Martyrs Foundation through its teams formed under
the Mass Graves Law is given the responsibility to search for these cases in the context of
its legal measures to search for such cases perpetrated by the former regime or terrorist ISIL
gangs.
There are 100 cases of urgent actions application have been registered at the forced
disappearance committee and there are more than 16,000 cases registered at the Working
Group on enforced and involuntary disappearances. The Iraqi Council of Representatives
and the Iraqi government are now drafting a bill on enforced disappearances.
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With regard to paragraph 32, we would like to make reference to the
formation of a special commission to investigate allegations of violations committed by
Iraqi forces under Order No. 193, which undertakes investigations in many allegations and
referred those found guilty to the justice.
Any mistakes took place in the context of the military actions committed by military or
the security forces will be tackled by the competent courts, and any judicial proceedings in
the cases referred in paragraph (33) were carried out based on a complaint from the
missing persons of relatives and such acts constitute individual behavior if they are true.
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It should be noted that the ISIL terrorist groups committed thousands of
executions in the areas controlled by them, which must be mentioned in the Report, where
such terrorists acts targeted civilians, police, government officials, minorities and women
from different communities, children, clerics, journalists, members of local councils and
others.
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With regard to paragraphs 36 and 37 on the allegations of extrajudicial
killings in the Kurdistan region against journalists in Iraq, UNESCO organization is
following up all cases of attacks against journalists through a central Committee formed for
this purpose, and the Judicial proceedings were the focus centre of Iraq's report in which
presented in 2017 as a response to UNESCO's requests for targeted attacks Against
journalists.
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And in order to document the violations committed during the period of ISIL
control over areas in Iraq, the Iraqi government has formed a specialized committee to
document these crimes under Order No. 374 of 2016, where its mandate is to collect
information and official documents to verify such crimes.
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Regarding paragraph 42 of the report, it is necessary to mention the creation
of a specialized investigative body in the northern courts in Mosul city concerned with the
investigation in ISIL crimes. Iraq is also one of the countries that is implementing Security
Council Resolution No. 1325 / 2000 and has also approved a contingency plan to
implement the said resolution to deal with the conditions that Iraqi woman is gone through,
on the other hand, Iraq has signed a joint statement with the representative of the SecretaryGeneral on sexual violence against woman in the context of armed conflict where the
statement placed an operational plan of action to monitor and respond to such crimes.
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Regarding paragraph 43, reference should be made to the efforts of the High
Commission for Human Rights (in accordance with the powers granted by its Law No. 53
of 2008, and also it should pointed fingers towards the role of monitoring section in the
Ministry of Justice to monitor violations of human rights, and what have been resulted from
such monitoring process with recommendations and proposals to provide remedy to such
violations, furthermore, Human rights departments in ministry of defense and interior and
other monitoring bodies are engaging in following up such information in relation to
human rights violations according to the jurisdiction given to each of them.
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