The Commission noted that there was no appropriate representation of al-Kakaiya
community in the Iraqi Council of Representatives nor the provincial councils with
small proportions of al-Kakaiya..
The IHCHR pointed out that the former government had no representative of the
Turkmen in the Cabinet, nor any ministerial portfolio given to Turkmen in the current
government so far despite repeated demands by their representatives.
Whereas the Commission indicated the representation of the Turkmen component in
all rounds of Salahddin Provincial Council by proportion ranging between 4-8% in
addition to the representation of large proportions ranging 33-50% in the local
councils in the district of Tuz and its sub-districts, including the area of Amerli, while
the Turkmen did not have a real participation in the province of Kirkuk, whether in the
security services or in the local government and other institutions, despite their
proportion of not less than a third in that province.
Recommendations:
1. Prompt the federal government and the KRG to take all legal measures to
ensure the representation of minorities in political life and increase the
number of seats reserved for minorities in commensurate with their
demographic weight.
2. Ensure the representation of women belonging to minority groups in political
life.
The Situation of Black Iraqis and Roma Communities:
Despite the existence of a constitutional text and the law of the General Authority for
Guaranteeing the Rights of Regions and Governorates that are not Organized in a
Region No. 26 of 2016, in addition to the adoption of the government to a number of
strategies for the five-year national plans (2010-2014) and (2013-2017), the
Millennium Development Objectives, the principles of equality and non-discrimination
among different segments and the strategy of alleviating poverty (2010-2014).
However, the Commission noted that these strategies did not achieve the desired
goals and the survey readings of these groups of individuals still suffer from direct and
indirect discrimination, as the groups (black-skinned) continue to suffer from
historically based social discrimination, leaving a negative impact on the social and
psychological reality,
and they don’t have representation in decision-making in the provinces where they
are especially existed in Basra province, which constitute the largest proportion of this
segment, where their numbers up to approximately (20,000) distributed in Basra city
center and the southern and western parts, specifically in Zubair district and some
southern and northern areas of the city, while informal statistics indicate that the
number of people with black skin in Iraq, approximately (2 million) persons5 and
distributed among the provinces (Basra, Kut, Amara and Nasiriyah), and they live in
5
) According to statistics provided by the Women's Freedom Organization in Iraq.
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