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Ban Ki-moon stresses that security in Iraq , worrying and demands to freeze the death penalty and to ensure freedom
Editor: BS | SZ Monday 09 نيسان 2012 16:00 GMT
Alsumaria News / Baghdad, said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday that the security situation in Iraq is still worrying despite the improvement that has occurred in recent years, as called for the Iraqi government to freeze the death penalty, he stressed the need to take further measures to ensure the protection of rights and fundamental freedoms for Iraqis. said Ban Ki-moon in remarks cited by the second periodic report submitted by the United Nations Mission in Iraq to the UN Security Council under resolution 2001 in 2011, and received "Alsumaria News," a copy of it, that "in spite of the improvement in on the security situation in recent years but remains concerned I am about the large number of attacks on civilians, which lies on an almost daily basis. " said Ki-moon that "I am concerned at the continuing increase in the death penalty in Iraq in the past," calling on the Iraqi authorities to "freeze on the use of these punishment. " The Amnesty International reported last March that the death sentences in Iraq has reached 68 cases from the period between January and until mid-March. welcomed Ki-moon to "recent efforts to strengthen the legislative and institutional framework for human rights, including the approval of the Council of Representatives of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the adoption of the National Action Plan for Human Rights. " and called on the Secretary-General of the United Nations to "take further measures to ensure the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms of all Iraqis, and to this end, it is important to establish the Electoral Commission of Human Rights without further delay. " The Iraqi Council of Representatives voted on Monday, a majority on the appointment of members of the Board of Commissioners of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, which passed the law in 2008 during its first session. In spite of the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in April 2003 by U.S. forces who ruled Iraq for 35 years as the strongest totalitarian regime in the Middle East, but the changes that took place in the country were not, according to observers, the level of ambition, especially after eight years of change. and confirmed the United Nations, (11 December 2011), the presence of significant challenges remain facing Iraqis and deny them their rights, particularly with regard to the opinion and public freedoms, calling on the Commission on Human Rights in the Iraqi Council of Representatives to hold accountable those involved in violations of those rights. The organization Reporters Without Borders, said in the twenty-sixth of the month of January in a report, that Iraq has dropped about 22 are arranged in the rankings of freedom during the year 2011, noting that the murders of journalists and violence practiced by the security forces against them during the demonstrations in Baghdad and Kurdistan is one of the most prominent negative indicators on press freedoms.
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Editor: BS | SZ Monday 09 نيسان 2012 16:00 GMT
Alsumaria News / Baghdad, said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday that the security situation in Iraq is still worrying despite the improvement that has occurred in recent years, as called for the Iraqi government to freeze the death penalty, he stressed the need to take further measures to ensure the protection of rights and fundamental freedoms for Iraqis. said Ban Ki-moon in remarks cited by the second periodic report submitted by the United Nations Mission in Iraq to the UN Security Council under resolution 2001 in 2011, and received "Alsumaria News," a copy of it, that "in spite of the improvement in on the security situation in recent years but remains concerned I am about the large number of attacks on civilians, which lies on an almost daily basis. " said Ki-moon that "I am concerned at the continuing increase in the death penalty in Iraq in the past," calling on the Iraqi authorities to "freeze on the use of these punishment. " The Amnesty International reported last March that the death sentences in Iraq has reached 68 cases from the period between January and until mid-March. welcomed Ki-moon to "recent efforts to strengthen the legislative and institutional framework for human rights, including the approval of the Council of Representatives of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the adoption of the National Action Plan for Human Rights. " and called on the Secretary-General of the United Nations to "take further measures to ensure the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms of all Iraqis, and to this end, it is important to establish the Electoral Commission of Human Rights without further delay. " The Iraqi Council of Representatives voted on Monday, a majority on the appointment of members of the Board of Commissioners of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, which passed the law in 2008 during its first session. In spite of the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in April 2003 by U.S. forces who ruled Iraq for 35 years as the strongest totalitarian regime in the Middle East, but the changes that took place in the country were not, according to observers, the level of ambition, especially after eight years of change. and confirmed the United Nations, (11 December 2011), the presence of significant challenges remain facing Iraqis and deny them their rights, particularly with regard to the opinion and public freedoms, calling on the Commission on Human Rights in the Iraqi Council of Representatives to hold accountable those involved in violations of those rights. The organization Reporters Without Borders, said in the twenty-sixth of the month of January in a report, that Iraq has dropped about 22 are arranged in the rankings of freedom during the year 2011, noting that the murders of journalists and violence practiced by the security forces against them during the demonstrations in Baghdad and Kurdistan is one of the most prominent negative indicators on press freedoms.
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