IRAQ: UN Universal Periodic Review Excerpts

Gender Related Excerpts from II Conclusions and/or Recommendations:

21. Undertake additional measures to protect rights of women and children.

41. Advance in the promotio of gender equality and equity and study the necessary

legislative reforms to follow international standards such as CEDAW.

43. Raise social awareness of the importance of women's rights.

61. Consider enacting a specific law to combat trafficking in persons, with emphasis

on the protection of the human rights of victims, especially women and children.

62. Intensify efforts to address impunity and incidence of trafficking and domestic violence

as well as sexual abuse of women and girls including by strengthening law

enforcement and the judicial system, recruiting more women in the police and

judiciary, and organizing more gender awareness campaigns within the Iraqi

armed forces and police.

63.Strengthen policies and measures, including legislation in the area of domestic

violence.

67.Put a decisive end to ther practice of female genital mutilation.

68.Consider efforts to adequately respond to honour related violence, provide shelters

for women in need, raise public awareness and prosecute the perpetrators as a

matter of priority.

72.Investigate thoroughly crimes against women and minorities and fully implement

laws intended to enforce constitutional protections for women and minorities,

inclding laws against discrimination.

73. Implement measures to address extrajudicial killings of persons on the basis of

their actual or presumed sexual orientation.

79. Take all necessary steps to strengthen the adequate access to justice especially

for vulnerable groups such as women.

106.Strengthen efforts of development and implementation of the Millennium Development

Goals concerning the enrolment at all levels of education, the realization of the right