Former member of the Human Rights commission, Anas Al-Azzawi, said today, Wednesday, that political competition represents the most important mission dealing with the formation of the new fee Council, further to the delay in deciding on the Council President, which negatively affected this technique.
He brought that “the interference of political parties inside the choice of council individuals continues to represent an obstacle to the institution regaining its countrywide and global function.”
Al-Azzawi defined to dinaropinions.com that “the national group lost its superior class, and also lost the possibility to host or chair the Arab community of country wide Human Rights institutions, similarly to dropping its seat as an observer within the global Human Rights Council.”
He talked about that “the methods associated with deciding on council participants started out in April 2023, however have not been completed yet, as member interviews and the selection method stay.”
He persisted: “we are hoping that the house of Representatives will resume its paintings after the legislative holiday on January nine, so that the committee tasked with finishing the file can start its paintings and gift its alternatives for a vote, with a view to allow the new council to start its technical obligations inside the national institution and hold its independence and felony fame at the national and international degrees.”
Al-Azzawi pressured that “there are human rights documents and prison rules which are nevertheless pending and do no longer upward push to international standards, that is taken into consideration a dangerous indicator of the decline within the reality of human rights in Iraq, which the global network attributes to the postpone in selecting the formation of the fee Council and the fee’s exercising of its technical responsibilities, which includes getting ready annual and periodic reviews and sending them to the relevant global institutions.”
He introduced that “the postpone in deciding on the members of the commission’s Board and the disruption of its technical paintings had a negative impact, because the tracking groups hold their work within the Iraqi governorates inside the workplaces, but the country wide organization is presently being managed below authorities supervision.”
He pointed out that “the top Minister’s workplace still keeps the management of the fee, that is controlled with the aid of the Minister of Justice, Khaled Al-Shawani. This constitutes governmental interference that impacts the independence of country wide establishments, which contradicts global standards that emphasize the necessity of the independence of countrywide our bodies, which include the high commission for Human Rights.”