The conditions of the journalists Women and Female Human Rights Defenders in Iraq 2014-2018

A report presented by “Sawtuha” Network for Women Human Rights Defenders

For the Human Rights Council on its 3rd session for reviewing

Report Universal Periodic Review

IRAQ

2019

Introduction:

“Sawtuha” Network for Women Human Rights Defenders, is officially registered with the NGO Department^[1]. founded by Iraqi Women Journalists Forum (IWJF) and Center for Public Policy. It includes 90 Iraqi organizations from most of the provinces of Iraq and the Kurdistan region aimed at ensuring that everyone enjoys all civil and political rights as stipulated by the Iraqi Constitution and international treaties and conventions, working to harmonize all domestic legislation with human rights instruments, supporting good governance and policies, implementing national policies for the protection of women human rights defenders against any sort of discrimination or violence against them, recognizing that women human rights defenders are an integral part of the human rights defenders’ system, in addition to supporting victims of human rights violations by preventing violations from going unpunished, by ensuring that legal accountability measures are taken and encouraging organizations affiliated with the network to work collectively as a lobbying force to mobilize in the face of any violation against human rights, women, media, and freedom of opinion and expression.

This report is submitted in accordance with the United Nations General Assembly resolution 60/250 of March 15^th, 2006 on the universal periodic review of the human rights situation, which is submitted by the network to the Human Rights’ Office of the High Commissioner of the United Nations

which monitors the extent of Iraq’s implementation of the recommendations it has agreed upon, regarding media women, freedom of expression, and women human rights defenders, when the recommendations of the report of the second session of the Universal Periodic Review of the situation of human rights in Iraq.

 

The conditions of the Media Women and Female Human Rights Defenders in Iraq-UPR