24 April 2012
STOCKHOLM - The Feyli Kurdish Democratic Union in Sweden today demanded the relevant authorities to appoint a representative for them in the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
The union's public relations representative Mahmoud Ismail said: "The union demanded the concerned authorities to appoint Riad Jassim Mohammed Faili as a representative for the Feyli Kurds in the Human Rights Commissioner.
"The Feyli Kurds are deliberately excluded by the political blocs from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, whose board includes 11 members and three reserve members."
Ismail explained that the share of minorities in the commission must not be less than one member and another reserve one, according to Article 8 part V of the Act of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights no. 53 of 2008.
"What happened is the exclusion of Feyli Kurds despite being subjected to genocide and the violation of all their human rights," he added.
"There's an attempt to exempt the Feyli Kurds from important state institutions. The most prominent kinds of marginalization represent excluding them from the quota system which included all Iraqis except the Feyli Kurds.
"Another series of exclusion began nearly a year ago and those included in this exclusion are chief of the information and communications committee and chairman of the electoral commission. [The exclusion also included] trying to close the only Feyli Kurdish radio station in Baghdad, in addition to the threat of ethnic cleansing in Baghdad and other parts of Iraq."
Ismail called on all of the "characters and the political forces and Iraqi civil society organizations, especially the Feyli Kurds" to support Faili in joining the UN Commissioner.
"This is our right after the Kurds suffered from the worst and most severe human rights violations and we're still subjected to discrimination."
STOCKHOLM - The Feyli Kurdish Democratic Union in Sweden today demanded the relevant authorities to appoint a representative for them in the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
The union's public relations representative Mahmoud Ismail said: "The union demanded the concerned authorities to appoint Riad Jassim Mohammed Faili as a representative for the Feyli Kurds in the Human Rights Commissioner.
"The Feyli Kurds are deliberately excluded by the political blocs from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, whose board includes 11 members and three reserve members."
Ismail explained that the share of minorities in the commission must not be less than one member and another reserve one, according to Article 8 part V of the Act of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights no. 53 of 2008.
"What happened is the exclusion of Feyli Kurds despite being subjected to genocide and the violation of all their human rights," he added.
"There's an attempt to exempt the Feyli Kurds from important state institutions. The most prominent kinds of marginalization represent excluding them from the quota system which included all Iraqis except the Feyli Kurds.
"Another series of exclusion began nearly a year ago and those included in this exclusion are chief of the information and communications committee and chairman of the electoral commission. [The exclusion also included] trying to close the only Feyli Kurdish radio station in Baghdad, in addition to the threat of ethnic cleansing in Baghdad and other parts of Iraq."
Ismail called on all of the "characters and the political forces and Iraqi civil society organizations, especially the Feyli Kurds" to support Faili in joining the UN Commissioner.
"This is our right after the Kurds suffered from the worst and most severe human rights violations and we're still subjected to discrimination."
© AK News 2012
