Civil Yazidi to amend the Human Rights Commission Act rejected

Civil Yazidi to amend the Human Rights Commission Act rejected

 Baghdad / term

Raised the House vote to amend the Human Rights Commission Act reactions from disgruntled representatives and some components of civil society organizations.
Criticized Vice Ayazdih what it described as ouster of representation within the component , the Independent Electoral Commission Council. In the meantime , civilians activists warned of the repercussions of the third amendment to Iraq 's international status , especially after his accession to the post of Deputy Chairman of the Executive Office of the Human Rights Council.
The House voted, during the session last Saturday, on a proposed law amending the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Law for the purpose of the statement of the role of the United Nations Human Rights Office in the selection of candidates for membership of the Board of Commissioners and objective oversight and to provide advice and technical support.
Announced that the Committee of Experts for the selection of the Board of Commissioners, in the 30th of last April, identifying 15 to 18 of May date for interviewing candidates for membership of the Commission.
The House of Representatives decided, the end of the 2016 solution Mvazavih human rights and voted to form a special committee of experts to choose new members.
Article 7 of the Commission Act that (is a House of Representatives committee of experts no more than fifteen members comprising representatives from the House of Representatives and the Council of Ministers and the Supreme Judicial Council and civil society organizations and the United Nations Office for Human Rights in Iraq The selection of candidates to declare a national).
In this context , it says the dry longings, Vice - Chairman of the Commission of Experts on Human Rights, said that " the last amendment did not cancel the UN seat of the Committee of Experts , but contributed to the lifting of ambiguity surrounding article VII of the Special Law Commission determine the functions of the international organization."
She dry, in an interview (range), " The amendment of the law contributed to the interpretation of Article VII of the Law on the United Nations human role rights in the Committee of Experts, which has kept its role in supervising and providing transparency in the selection of members of the Commission on the Commission 's procedures without giving the right to vote on candidates ".
The paragraphs contained in the Third Amendment to the Human Rights Commission Act, the formation of a committee by the House of Representatives consists of a number of experts to exceed the number of 15 members, comprising representatives from the House of Representatives and the Council of Ministers and the Supreme Judicial Council and civil society organizations.
On the component Yezidi objections about the denial of representation in the Commission, Kurdish MP said , "says granting Yezidi independent component seats during his presentation in the House of Representatives and vote on it directly is holding is incorrect."
The rejection of the House of Representatives, during its thirty - first, held last Sunday, issuing a recommendation to the Commission on Human Rights on the representation of the Yezidi component of the Commission within the Council 's share components.
The Vice - Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee of Experts that "the existence of legal procedures and means of recourse to component Yezidi in order to ensure that he receives a special seat."
In the meantime, called (Civic Platform), the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva to "issue a critical attitude towards violations and interference in the work of the parties and the formation of the Iraqi Human Rights Commission."


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