human rights defenders, journalists, and lawyers
Cases- Location of case in SG report
- 2024-068-001
- Relevant SG report
- Year of the report
- 2024
- From Country
- Country Geolocation
Latitude: 33.223191
Longitude: 43.679291
- Country Geolocation (linked Cases)
- Iraq
- From Region
- UN body that raised the case prior to the SG report
- UN Treaty Bodies: CESCR
- UN (Dep.) High Commissioner on Human Rights
- Dates of prior UN action
- 9 August 2023, 1 March 2024
- Type of record
- Preemptive statement made to ensure no reprisals will occur
- Was the victim a foreign national?
- No
- Was the victim a minor?
- No
- Type of rights defended
- Unclear in SG Report
- Was the victim a civil servant or member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
- No
- Reported trigger of reprisal
cooperated or sought to cooperate with the Committee
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Treaty Bodies: CESCR
- Type of attempted engagement
- Participation in meeting on UN premises
- Submission of information to UN
- Reprisal information
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights19 and the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in its concluding observations on Iraq’s fifth periodic report (E/C.12/IRQ/CO/5 paras. 10–11), encouraged the protection of human rights defenders, journalists, and lawyers. The day of the adoption of the concluding observations of several reports, including on Iraq, the Chair of the Committee underlined that no one should be subjected to reprisals for having cooperated or sought to cooperate with the Committee.20
- Types of reprisals suffered
- Unclear
- Alleged/likely perpetrators
- State actors
- Was the reprisal based on new legislation?
- No
- Does the report make general comment about country’s environment for engagement with UN?
- No
- Was the case raised by a State at the UN?
- No
- Is the country cited for a "pattern of reprisal" in the context of this case?
- No
- Is a pattern of reprisals mentioned otherwise in the context of this case?
- No
- Does the report cite "self-censorship" as an issue in the context of this case?
- No
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