need due to the destruction of the houses by terrorist gangs, as well as lack of rehabilitation of the simplest services needed by the citizen to return (electricity, water, schools and hospitals.) The Commission monitored the exposure of minorities of Al-Kakaiya component to numerous and systematic violations based on ethnicity, where the security situation posed a direct threat in the areas inhabited by Al- Kakaiya in the province of Kirkuk, and hundreds of families subjected to displacement because of the threats of armed groups and terrorism. The Commission noted the existence of an organized and systematic operation by terrorist groups to remove Kakaiya sacred sites by detonating, controlling or changing its identity. Daesh occupied villages in Nineveh plain and Daqouq area in the governorate in 2014, resulting in the displacement of approximately 20 thousand citizens of Alkakaiya community in Iraq, and the number of people remaining in the province of Kirkuk is estimated at (75) thousand people, but the number in all of Iraq is estimated at (200) thousand people, and two villages inhabited by Al-Kakaiya (Albu Mohammed – Shuker Jeran) were displaced into Kirkuk province where their numbers (52) family. After the liberation of Hawija district from Daesh terrorist gangs in 2017, the villages near Daqouq district, which is inhabited by the majority of Al-Kakaiya component, were displaced by Daesh where the number of the displaced families from the nearby villages to the district especially the villages of (Arabkwi, Zanqr) , reached 53 family. The statics indicated the killing of 197 people, were kidnapped during 2003-2014, and 38 were killed during the period of occupation of terrorist gangs. During 2018, two members of Al-Kakaiya component were kidnapped from the village of Topazawa and (3) people were injured, as well as kidnapping a woman and killing (2) women from one family. On 21/3/2018, terrorist gangs blew up Zibar shrine, a religious symbol whose shrine is considered an archaeological and religious destination, it is located in the village of Zanqr, west of Daqouq district. Recommendations: 1. Urging the federal government to conduct disaggregated statistical data on minorities according to ethnic and religious composition, age and gender that indicating the extent on which the members of minorities enjoy their economic, social and cultural rights. 2. Urging the Federal Government and the Kurdistan Regional Government to take all necessary measures to remove all obstacles that prevent the enjoyment of human rights by members of different ethnic and religious groups, including Yazidi minorities in Sinjar district, and striving to rehabilitate their areas and returning them. 10

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