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On 2 June 2015, the Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights (IHCHR) – the Iraqi National Human Rights Institution (NHRI), created in April 2012 – was awarded the "B" status by the International Coordinating Committee of NHRIs (ICC) to mark the Iraqi NHRI's non-full compliance with the Paris Principles – a set of international standards relating to the status of NHRIs. To Alkarama, which had called upon the ICC to award it the "C" status to mark its full non-compliance of the Iraqi HCHR with international standards, the ICC's decision is a "vote of encouragement" to a newly created NHRI which must quickly incorporate the recommendations made by the ICC's Sub-Committee on Accreditation (SCA) that reviewed the IHCHR in March 2015.

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Qatar - HR Instruments

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)

No

Convention against Torture (CAT)

CAT: Accessed on 11.01.2000
Optional Protocol: No
Art. 20 (Confidential inquiry): Yes
Art. 22 (Individual communications): No

State report: Due on 23.11.2016 (3rd)
Last concluding observations: 25.01.2013

International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CED)

No

Universal Periodic Review (UPR)

Last review: 05.2014 (2nd cycle)
Next review: -

National Human Rights Institution (NHRI)

National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) – Status A

Last review: 10.2010
Next review: 11.2015