A/RES/57/232 (b) Security Council resolution 1409 (2002), in which all exports to Iraq are allowed except for items which are on the goods review list 11 and which are therefore subject to review by the Sanctions Committee; 2. Notes that: (a) The Government of Iraq has responded in writing to some requests for information made by the Special Rapporteur; (b) The Government of Iraq has accepted a second visit by the Special Rapporteur; 3. Expresses grave concern that there has been no improvement in the situation of human rights in the country; 4. 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 all-pervasive repression and oppression sustained by broad-based discrimination and widespread terror; (b) The suppression of freedom of thought, religion and belief, 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 Rights 2 and the United Nations safeguards; (e) Summary and arbitrary executions, including political killings and the continuing prison cleansing, the use of rape as a political tool, 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; 5. of decrees Calls upon the Government of Iraq: (a) To abide by its freely undertaken obligations under international human rights instruments and international humanitarian law 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 end all summary and arbitrary executions and the imposition of the death penalty for crimes committed by persons under the age of 18 years, and to ensure that capital punishment will not be imposed for crimes other than the most serious and will not be pronounced in disregard of the obligations it has assumed under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the provisions of the United Nations safeguards; (c) To establish a moratorium on executions; _______________ 11 See S/2002/515, annex. 3