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Continue to promote measures to protect and promote the rights of migrant workers in line with the relevant international instruments

Provide protection and ensure the rights of all displaced persons, regardless of perceived political affiliations

Strengthen the socioeconomic and cultural rights of persons with disabilities

Pursue efforts to promote the rights of persons with disabilities

Continue its programme to promote the rights of persons with disabilities, in particular those affected physically or emotionally by the conflict

Continue to address discrimination against persons with disabilities, including by ensuring equal access to education and employment

Strengthen measures to ensure the rights of persons with disabilities, including through proper legislation, infrastructure and facilities

Adopt all the necessary measures to guarantee that the human rights and fundamental freedoms of persons belonging to national minorities are respected

Further promote tolerance and intercultural dialogue, with a view to protecting its diversity of languages, religions, ethnicities and cultures

Enact legislation to protect ethnic and religious minorities

Take measures to protect the rights of religious minorities to enable them to exercise their right to freedom of worship

Deepen efforts to investigate human rights violations committed against the Yazidi people in order to punish the perpetrators, and guarantee the protection of the religious, heritage and material culture of the Yazidi people

Enhance measures for the protection of minorities in conflict zones against all kind of abuses in conformity with human rights and humanitarian law

Take all measures to guarantee greater representation of religious minorities in the social and political fields of the country

Improve the reintegration and protection of members of ethnic and religious minority groups, and those displaced by conflict, and ensure access to public services, including the issuance of identity documentation

Continue its efforts to achieve fair representation of all groups both in the Iraqi Government and in the administration

Follow inclusive policies to strengthen the sense of unity among all ethnic and sectarian groups

Increase policies to support the return of the Yazidi community to its traditional lands

Strengthen measures to protect children from abduction and recruitment by non-State actors

Continue efforts to ensure the education of children and to fight school dropout

Provide basic services to children returning to their homes after displacement and develop reintegration programmes

Take measures to prevent and combat all forms of violence against children, including child prostitution, the sale of children and the recruitment of children to armed groups

Make further efforts to improve the welfare of children, particularly on access to education, health care, safe drinking water and protection from all violence

Implement its best efforts to ensure the protection of the rights of the child, with a particular focus on the right to have access to both parents and equality between parents in terms of custody rights

Continue efforts to enact the child rights act

Establish policies and mechanisms to effectively protect the rights of children, especially against the sale of children, child prostitution, early marriage, child labour and internal displacement

To take further measures to protect the rights of women and children

Take the necessary steps to enact the children’s code and take appropriate measures for its effective implementation

Eradicate remaining harmful practices, particularly female genital mutilation and early and forced marriage, and raise public awareness of their negative effects

Continue efforts made to promote and protect the rights of children