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   Inserted: (2) the United States Government and the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq should urge the Government of Iraq to enhance security at places of worship in Iraq, particularly where religious minorities are known to be at risk;

   Inserted: (3) the United States Government should continue to work with the Government of Iraq to ensure that members of ethnic and religious minorities communities in Iraq--

   Inserted: (A) suffer no discrimination in recruitment, employment, or advancement in the Iraqi police and security forces; and

   Inserted: (B) while employed in the Iraqi police and security forces, where appropriate, be assigned to their locations of origin, rather than being transferred to other areas;

   Inserted: (4) the Government of Iraq and the Kurdistan regional government should work towards a peaceful and timely resolution of disputes over territories, particularly those where many religious communities reside;

   Inserted: (5) the United States Government and the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq should urge the Government of Iraq to--

   Inserted: (A) implement in full those provisions of the Constitution of Iraq that provide protections for the individual rights to freedom of thought, conscience, religion, and belief and protections for religious minorities to enjoy their culture and language and practice their religion; and

   Inserted: (B) reduce onerous registration requirements so that smaller religious groups are not disadvantaged in registering;

   Inserted: (6) the Government of Iraq should take affirmative measures to reverse the legal, political, and economic marginalization of religious minorities in Iraq;

   Inserted: (7) the United States Government should assist, consistent with local aspirations and developmental needs, ethnic and religious minorities in Iraq to organize themselves civically and politically to effectively convey their concerns to government;

   Inserted: (8) the United States Government should continue to fund capacity-building programs for the Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights and the independent national Human Rights Commission, and should continue to help reconstitute the minorities committee to make it an effective voice for Iraqi minorities;

   Inserted: (9) the Government of Iraq should direct the Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights to investigate and issue a public report on abuses against and the marginalization of minority communities in Iraq and make recommendations to address such abuses; and

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   Inserted: (10) the United States Government should encourage the Government of Iraq and the Kurdistan Regional Government to protect the linguistic and cultural heritage, religious beliefs, and ethnic and religious identities of minority groups, in particular those living in the Nineveh Plain.

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