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＜事件 No. IRQ001/0106/OBS010＞
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掲載日：2006.02.10
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No.3808イラク
労働組合リーダーが複数の男性に射殺されました。
「国際人権連盟」(FIDH)と「SOSトーチャー」の共同プロジェクトである「人権擁護家保護のための監視機構」は、イラクにおける下記の状況に関して皆様の緊急の働きかけをお願いします。
＜事件の概要＞
人権擁護家のための監視機構は「国際自由労連（ICFTU）」より、機械工組合のバグダッド支部執行役員であり、最近設立された「イラク労働者総連合(GFIW)」の名の知れた組合員であったアラア・イッサ・カラフさんが殺害されたという情報を入手しました。
入手した情報によると、アラア・イッサ・カラフさんは1月25日午前7時頃、出勤するためにバグダッドの自宅から出たところ、見覚えのない男性複数名に射殺されたということです。
監視機構は、イラクで労働組合員が殺害されたり誘拐されたりしたのはこれが初めてではないことを想起します。例えば、2005年2月18日には率直な発言で知られる石油ガス労働組合の組合員、アリ・ハッサン・アブド（アブ・ファハド）さんが帰宅途中に殺されました。アリ・ハッサンさんは石油業界で労働組合の組織化をはじめた活動家の1人であり、フセイン政権崩壊後のイラクですでに2003年4月頃から労働組合の意見を主張してきました。同様に2005年1月4日に「イラク労働組合連盟(IFTU)」のハディ・サレー国際書記が、バグダッドの自宅で残虐な拷問を受け、殺害されました。（2005年2月28日付IRQ001/0205/OBS016参照）
監視機構は、フセイン政権時代の反組合法がいまだに残るイラクで労働組合員の殺害が多発している状況を非常に懸念し、イラク当局に対し、国際労働機関(ILO)の「結社の自由及び団結権の保護に関する条約（第87号）」を早急に批准するよう要請します。
監視機構は全般的にも、イラクの人権擁護家が命の危険があり、安全が脅かされ、非常に不安定な状況の中で活動を続けざるを得ない状況を深く案じていることを表明します。
＜行動要請＞
イラク関係当局に以下の内容の要請をお願いします。
- 労働組合員を含みイラクで活動するすべての人権擁護家の心身の安全をいかなる情況にあろうとも保障すること。
- アラア・イッサ・カラフさん殺害の犯人を特定し、裁判に付し、罪の重さに応じた判決を言い渡すために、公正、中立、独立した調査を実施すること。
- 被害者の家族に適切な補償がなされるように保障すること。
- イラクにおける人権擁護家に対するあらゆる形態の嫌がらせと虐待に終止符を打ち、いかなる情況下においても、人権擁護家と人権組織が妨害なくその活動を遂行できるよう保障すること。
- 国連総会が1998年12月9日に採択した人権擁護家に関する宣言の条文、とりわけ、「すべての人は、人権と基本的自由を国内および国際レベルで促進および保護する権利を、個別におよび集団的に所有する」とした第１条と「国家は、個別であれ他者との合同であれ、すべての人が、本宣言に記述されている権利の合法的行使の結果により受ける、暴力、脅迫、報復、事実上あるいは法律上の差別、圧力あるいはその他の恣意的行為から資格ある当局の保護を受けるよう保障するために、あらゆる必要な措置をとるものとする」とした第12条2項の実施を保障すること。
- 世界人権宣言と、イラクが批准したその他の国際人権文書にしたがい、人権尊重と基本的自由を保障すること。
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＜要請先＞
首相：Mr. Ibrahim Jaafari, Prime Minister, Office of the Prime Minister, Bagdad, Iraq, c/o Permanent Mission of the Republic of Iraq to the United Nations Office in Geneva, Chemin du Petit-Saconnex 28a, 1209 Geneve, Suisse, Fax: 00 41 22 733 03 26, E-mail: mission.iraq@ties.itu.int
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＜手紙の例文＞
例文を添付いたします。手紙を出されるときにご活用ください。
Mr. Ibrahim Jaafari
Prime Minister
c/o Permanent Mission of the Republic of Iraq to the United Nations Office in Geneva
Chemin du Petit-Saconnex 28a
1209 Geneve
Suisse
Dear Mr. Jaafari,
I am writing you to express my concern over the killing of Mr. Alaa Issa Khalaf, who was a prominent leader of the General Federation of Iraqi Workers (GFIW), on January 25, 2006. I would urge you the following:
- To guarantee the physical and psychological integrity of all human rights defenders working in Iraq, including trade unionists, in all circumstances;
- To conduct a fair, impartial and independent inquiry into the assassinations of Mr. Alaa Issa Khalaf, in order to identify the authors, bring them to justice and pronounce sentences proportional to the gravity of their crimes;
- To guarantee that adequate reparation is provided to the victim's family;
- To end all forms of harassment and ill-treatment of human rights defenders in Iraq, and guarantee in all circumstances that human rights defenders and organisations are able to carry out their work without any hindrance;
- To ensure the implementation of the provisions of the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 9, 1998, in particular article 1, which states that "everyone has the right, individually or in association with others, to promote and to strive for the protection and realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms at the national and international levels", as well as article 12.2, which provides that "the State shall take all necessary measures to ensure the protection by the competent authorities of everyone, individually or in association with others, against any violence, threats, retaliation, de facto or de jure adverse discrimination, pressure or any other arbitrary action as a consequence of his or her legitimate exercise of the rights referred to in the present Declaration";
- To guarantee the respect of human rights and fundamental freedoms in accordance with the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and other international human rights instruments ratified by Iraq.
I thank you for your kind attention to my request.
Yours faithfully,
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＜以下、原文＞
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URGENT APPEAL - THE OBSERVATORY
IRQ 001 / 0106 / OBS 010
Assassination
Iraq
January 27, 2006
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Iraq.
Description of the situation:
The Observatory has been informed by the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) of the murder of Mr. Alaa Issa Khalaf, a member of the Executive Board of the Baghdad branch of the Mechanics Union, and a prominent member of the recently created General Federation of Iraqi Workers (GFIW).
According to the information received, Mr. Alaa Issa Khalaf was shot dead at around 7.30 am on January 25 by several unidentified men as he left for work from his home in Baghdad.
The Observatory recalls that it is not the first time that a trade unionist was murdered or abducted in Iraq. For instance, on February 18, 2005, the Iraqi labour leader Mr. Ali Hassan Abd (Abu Fahad), a prominent and outspoken member of the Oil and Gas Union, was murdered on his way home. Mr. Ali Hassan Abd was one of the first activists to organise trade unions in the oil industry, encouraging union voice in a post-Saddam Iraq as early as April 2003. Likewise, on January 4, 2005, Mr. Hadi Saleh, International Secretary of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), was brutally tortured and murdered at his Baghdad home (See Observatory urgent appeal IRQ 001/0205/OBS 016, dated February 28, 2005).
The Observatory is very concerned that murder of labour leaders in Iraq has become a troubling trend in a country where trade unionists still operate under anti-union legislation which dates back to the Saddam-era, and urges the Iraqi authorities to immediately ratify the Convention 87 on freedom of association of the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
More generally, the Observatory expresses its deepest concern at the situation of human rights defenders in Iraq, who face tremendous risk to their lives and security, and who are therefore conducting their activities in an extremely precarious situation.
Actions requested:
Please write to the Iraqi authorities urging them to:
- guarantee the physical and psychological integrity of all human rights defenders working in Iraq, including trade unionists, in all circumstances;
- conduct a fair, impartial and independent inquiry into the assassinations of Mr. Alaa Issa Khalaf, in order to identify the authors, bring them to justice and pronounce sentences proportional to the gravity of their crimes;
- guarantee that adequate reparation is provided to the victim's family;
- end all forms of harassment and ill-treatment of human rights defenders in Iraq, and guarantee in all circumstances that human rights defenders and organisations are able to carry out their work without any hindrance;
- ensure the implementation of the provisions of the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 9, 1998, in particular article 1, which states that "everyone has the right, individually or in association with others, to promote and to strive for the protection and realization of human rights and fundamental freedoms at the national and international levels", as well as article 12.2, which provides that "the State shall take all necessary measures to ensure the protection by the competent authorities of everyone, individually or in association with others, against any violence, threats, retaliation, de facto or de jure adverse discrimination, pressure or any other arbitrary action as a consequence of his or her legitimate exercise of the rights referred to in the present Declaration";
- guarantee the respect of human rights and fundamental freedoms in accordance with the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and other international human rights instruments ratified by Iraq.
Addresses:
- Mr. Ibrahim Jaafari, Prime Minister, Office of the Prime Minister, Bagdad, Iraq, c/o Permanent Mission of the Republic of Iraq to the United Nations Office in Geneva, Chemin du Petit-Saconnex 28a, 1209 Geneve, Suisse, Fax: 00 41 22 733 03 26, E-mail: mission.iraq@ties.itu.int
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Geneva-Paris, January 27, 2006
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