A/RES/55/115
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Strongly condemns:
(a) The systematic, widespread and extremely grave violations of human
rights and of international humanitarian law by the Government of Iraq, resulting in
an all-pervasive repression and oppression sustained by broad-based discrimination
and widespread terror;
(b) The suppression of freedom of thought, expression, information,
association, assembly and movement through fear of arrest, imprisonment,
execution, expulsion, house demolition and other sanctions;
(c) The repression faced by any kind of opposition, in particular the
harassment and intimidation of and threats against Iraqi opponents living abroad and
members of their families;
(d) The widespread use of the death penalty in disregard of the provisions of
the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights2 and the United Nations
safeguards;
(e) Summary and arbitrary executions, including political killings and the
continuing so-called clean-out of prisons, as well as enforced or involuntary
disappearances, routinely practised arbitrary arrests and detention and consistent and
routine failure to respect due process and the rule of law;
(f) Widespread, systematic torture and the maintaining
prescribing cruel and inhuman punishment as a penalty for offences;
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Calls upon the Government of Iraq:
(a) To abide by its freely undertaken obligations under international human
rights treaties and international humanitarian law and to respect and ensure the
rights of all individuals, irrespective of their origin, ethnicity, gender or religion,
within its territory and subject to its jurisdiction;
(b) To bring the actions of its military and security forces into conformity
with the standards of international law, in particular those of the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;
(c) To cooperate with United Nations human rights mechanisms, in particular
by inviting the Special Rapporteur to visit the country and allowing the stationing of
human rights monitors throughout Iraq pursuant to the relevant resolutions of the
General Assembly and the Commission on Human Rights;
(d) To establish the independence of the judiciary and abrogate all laws
granting impunity to specified forces or persons killing or injuring individuals for
any purpose beyond the administration of justice under the rule of law as prescribed
by international standards;
(e) To abrogate all decrees that prescribe cruel and inhuman punishment or
treatment, including mutilation, and to ensure that torture and cruel punishment and
treatment no longer occur;
(f) To abrogate all laws and procedures, including Revolution Command
Council Decree No. 840 of 4 November 1986, that penalize free expression, and to
ensure that the genuine will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of the
State;
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