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Publications

High Commissioner's Strategic Management Plan 2008-2009
Human Rights in Action
Humanitarian Appeal 2008 
A Handbook for NGOs

Iraq


Iraq 

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Iraq and UN Charter-based Bodies

Iraq and UN Treaty Bodies

Most recent concluding observations

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Concluding Observations (2001)

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Concluding Observations (2000)

Committee on the Rights of the Child
Concluding Observations (1998)

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Concluding Observations (1997)

Human Rights Committee
Concluding Observations (1997)

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OHCHR in Iraq

The Human Rights Office within the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) was established in 2004 with the mandate to ensure the promotion and protection of human rights as foreseen in Security Council Resolution 1546 of June 2004. Freedom of movement of UN staff continues to be severely restricted because of security conditions in all regions, except governorates under the authority of the Kurdistan Regional Government. As of this writing, despite the difficult security situation, the Office had monitored and reported on the human rights situation and had implemented capacity-building activities focusing on the rehabilitation and reconstruction of state and civil society institutions.
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Contact Information

Headquarters

Field Operations and Technical Cooperation Division
Tel. +41 22 928 9118
Geneva, Switzerland

Middle East and North Africa Unit
Tel. +41 22 928 9153
Geneva, Switzerland


Field

United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)
Tel: +962 77 670 3047
Email: bercault@un.org

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OHCHR in the field

Map of OHCHR field presences

Regional Offices

Country Offices

Human Rights Components of Peace Missions

Human Rights Advisors

Action 2

Technical Cooperation Programme

National Human Rights Institutions