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E/C.12/IRQ/CO/4 E. Other recommendations 59. The Committee encourages the State party to consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. 60. The Committee recommends that the State party collect data, and encourage the collection of data and the production and use of statistics on human rights indicators, including for economic, social and cultural rights. In this respect, the Committee refers the State party to the conceptual and methodological framework for human rights indicators developed by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (see HRI/MC/2008/3). The Committee requests that the State party include in its next periodic report statistical data on the enjoyment of each Covenant right, disaggregated by age, sex, ethnicity, urban/rural population and other relevant status, on an annual comparative basis. 61. The Committee invites the State party to continue and strengthen its collaboration on issues relating to economic, social and cultural rights with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the specialized agencies and the relevant United Nations programmes. 62. The Committee requests the State party to disseminate the present concluding observations widely at all levels of society, particularly among parliamentarians, public officials and judicial authorities, and to inform the Committee in its next periodic report on the steps taken to implement them. It also encourages the State party to engage non-governmental organizations and other members of civil society in the process of consultation at the national level, prior to the submission of its next periodic report. 63. The Committee requests the State party to submit its fifth periodic report, to be prepared in accordance with the reporting guidelines adopted by the Committee in 2008 (E/C.12/2008/2), by 31 October 2020. It also invites the State party to submit its common core document in accordance with the harmonized guidelines on reporting under the international human rights treaties (see HRI/GEN/2/Rev.6, chap. I). 11

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Concluding observations on the fourth periodic report of Iraq

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Iraq

Rights Involved

Right to adequate housing
Right to adequate standard of living
Right to education
Right to food
Right to health
Right to social security
Right to water and sanitation
Right to work
Rights of persons with disabilities
Rights of the child
Rights of women and girls

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Non-discrimination
Participation
Progressive realization
Resource allocation
Resource expenditure
Transparency

International Human Rights Body

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Date: Oct 27, 2015

Summary: In their Concluding Observations of Iraq, the CESCR provides recommendations to the State party to address the root causes of corruption and effectively implement all anti-corruption policy and legislative measures, and to take measures to promote gender equality, non-discrimination, and the range of ESCR, and to provide sufficient budgetary resources toward those ends. On resources, the Committee recommends that the State party gradually increase its national spending on social security, health and education, so as to achieve the progressive realization of economic, social and cultural rights in line with article 2 (1) of the Covenant. The Committee also recommends that the State party take measures to ensure that austerity measures already introduced in 2015 and envisaged for the future do not deprived is advantaged and marginalized individuals and groups of the enjoyment of their economic, social and cultural rights.

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