NHRI establishment checklist

Reference Tool for National Human Rights Institute Establishment

Memo on the Roles and Responsibilities of the Iraq Human Rights Commission and the Human Rights Ministry

Legal Analysis of Draft Legislation to establish the Iraq Human Rights Commission

Advocacy Tool for National Human Rights Institutions

National Human Rights Institutions Concepts and Issues

Human Rights Advocacy

Advocacy for National Human Rights Institutions

Roles and Responsibilities of a Parliamentary Human Rights Committee

Human Rights and Forced Displacement

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AH7 Report and Feb 2006 draft of disability convention (in Arabic)

Asia Pacific Forum Draft Guidelines for New NHRIs (visit their website at http://www.asiapacificforum.net/)

Convention Against Torture

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (CCPR)

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) (in Arabic)

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD)

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR)

Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

Human Rights Council resolution and draft disappearances treaty (in Arabic)

Migrant Workers Convention (in Arabic from p. 276)

Paris Principles

Paris Principles (in Arabic)

Universal Declaration on Human Rights (in Arabic)

Additional web resource for forced migration and IDP issues

Principles on Internal Displacement

Principles on Internal Displacement (in Arabic)

Official Government of Iraq Website

Constitution of Iraq

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Resources on Forced Migration and Internally Displaced Peoples

The following is a non-exhaustive list of web-based resources that may be of assistance to those working on these issues.  Please note that while most of the sites provided are in English, many have Arabic mirror sites and/or documents available in Arabic.

UNHCR's Iraq-specific website (including news, statistics, maps, analysis etc. - much relates to refugees but the coverage also reaches to IDPs and the need for humanitarian aid response)
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/country?iso=irq

UNHCR's IDP website
http://www.unhcr.org/protect/3b84c7e23.html

Homepage of the UN Secretary General's Representative on the HRs of Internally Displaced Persons (with links to further info)
http://www.ohchr.org/english/issues/idp/index.html
 

See in particular the link to international standards, which has links to a Guiding Principles document (in English and Arabic) as well as a handbook to make the Guiding Principles more accessible:
http://www.irinnews.org/webspecials/idp/bkarticle21.asp

Forced Migration's Iraq-specific website
http://www.forcedmigration.org/browse/regional/iraq.htm

International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (as adopted by the HRs Council at its first session)
http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/E/HRC/resolutions/A-HRC-RES-1-1.doc (downloads a Word document)

General Comment 18 of HRs Committee on Non-Discrimination
http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/3888b0541f8501c9c12563ed004b8d0e?Opendocument

Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/refugees.htm

Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Protocol II)
http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/protocol2.htm

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