3. Urging the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government to
rehabilitate all places of residence for minorities and places of worship for
Christian, Yazidi and Sabean Mandaean minorities to encourage them to
return voluntarily and to practice their religious rites freely and
reassuringly.
4. Urging the federal government and the concerned judicial authorities to
bring the perpetrators of the crimes against the members of Turkmen
component to justice and combat impunity.
5. Urging the Federal Government to take all measures aimed at addressing
the radical causes of discrimination against minority groups.
6. Urging the federal government to adopt policies, strategies, programs and
allocating sufficient funds to protect and preserve the diversity of
languages, religions, ethnicities and cultures in Iraq and protecting the
cultural heritage of all components of Iraqi society.
7. Urging the Federal Government, the Iraqi Council of Representatives and
the Kurdistan Regional Government to take all steps to recognize all ethnic
and religious minorities in Iraq, recognize Yazidis as ethnic groups different
from Kurds and recognize the Shabak as a national group.
8. Urging the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government to
take all measures aimed at protecting minorities from Al-Kakaiya
component and recognizing them as an ethnic-religious group
Statistical Data Relating to the Ethnic Composition of the Population (Articles 1 & 5):
Because of the security conditions experienced by Iraq and the vicious attack by Daesh
terrorist gangs on many of the provinces, resulting in the killing, abduction and forced
displacement of a large number of minorities to the Kurdistan region and the rest of
Iraq's provinces and the migration of others to the outside of the country and thus
significantly affected the census of them.
The IHCHR believes that the need to keep track of their numbers and prepare a
database of them who are inside and outside Iraq for its important in building strategic
policies to promote the protection of minority rights, to develop appropriate
programs and rehabilitate them at all levels in addition to the need to conduct a
census of the whole of Iraq. The Commission noted a decline in the number of
members of religious minorities, from 2003 to 2014, a significant decline in the
number of Christian families in all their communities from (1500) families in Basra to
nearly (450) families in 2014 According to the continuous survey of the monitoring
teams of our Commission, it is similar to the Evangelical community, which has been
reduced to (15) families by 2018.
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