The Parliamentary Committee on Culture, Tourism, Antiquities and Information stressed the need to end the phenomenon of intolerance and religious discrimination in all its forms when enacting the Law for the Protection of Religious Freedoms, and the consolidation of the principles of peaceful coexistence and the preservation of the rights of components, according to what was drawn up by the Iraqi constitution.

The Media Office of the House of Representatives stated in a statement today, Saturday, that "First Vice-Chairman of the Committee, Samiaa Al-Ghallab, and member of the committee, Aref Al-Hamami, participated with other parliamentary committees in the workshop that was held by the Parliamentary Development Institute in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, in cooperation with the Rafidain Peace Organization and the Round Table for Religious Freedom in Iraq and under the auspices of the Secretary General of the Parliament under the title (The Concept of Religious Freedoms and Mechanisms of Protection and Strengthening them in accordance with the Iraqi Constitution).

The committee stressed the importance of "addressing the gaps that concern the protection of the individual in his conversion to religion, and granting him the right to practice his rituals in complete freedom, as guaranteed by Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and also as guaranteed by the Iraqi constitution in preserving rights and freedoms, expression of opinion and freedom of choice."

Source: National Iraqi News Agency