The Iraqi Minorities Council is one of the civil society organizations. It is concerned with historically and culturally-recognized minority groups of the Iraqi society in order to defend their national, cultural, political, religious and social rights in the coming permanent constitution and the laws that govern the rights and duties of the Iraqi society including all official and semi-official institutions in Iraq. It also endeavors to inflict human rights laws and disseminate the values and principles of equality before the law, regardless of discrimination in sex, race, language, nationality, religion or sect.

The Council works on the basis of absolute loyalty to the country and that all the people cooperate in building a democratic, federal and pluralist Iraq. It is also based on publicizing religious and national tolerance, and resolving social conflicts peacefully.

Iraqi Minorities Council is a peace-loving organization and it firmly stands against repression, injustice, violence and terrorism under any pretext, and it struggles for the freedom of people everywhere.

The Minorities Council consists of the following:

1- Representatives of the Iraqi ethnic and religious minorities.
2- Personalities from these minorities.

Paragraph B: The Iraqi minorities included in this council are:

First: Religious minorities:

A- Christians (all factions)
B- Sabian Mandaeans.
C- Yezidis.

Second: Ethnic Minorities:

A- Feili Kurds
B- Turkmen
C- Assyrian Chaldean
D- Shabak
E- Armenian

It is permissible to add other historically and culturally-recognized Iraqi ethnic and religious minorities to the Council with the approval of two thirds of the members’ votes.

The Headquarters of the Council shall be in Baghdad and it has the right to open branches in other Iraqi cities.

Objectives:

Boosting Iraqi national unity and sovereignty to build a free, independent, pluralist and democratic Iraq where all people enjoy equal rights regardless of their racial, religious and political background in accordance with the international laws of human rights.

Defending the minorities’ national, cultural, political, religious and social rights in the permanent constitution and the laws that govern the Iraqi people’s rights and duties including all components and official and semi-official institutions in Iraq.

Working on enlisting all the names of minorities in the permanent constitution through the coming amendment projects and not to marginalize any one of them.

Working on strengthening the Council’s relations with the influential national and political currents especially those supporting the minorities’ expectations.

Working on nominating the Council’s technocratic persons to take up important official and semi-official prominent positions in the Government, depending on their qualifications.

Setting up the right of electoral representation for the representatives of Iraqi minorities and allocating a fixed percentage (quota) of the seats of the elected constitutional commissions for Iraq as a whole and for the governorates where the minorities are residing.

Appointing a representative from the Council to be a constitutional observer in the elected constitutional commissions and constitutional federal and regional courts.

Ensuring the rights of women in the human rights laws.

Working on abolishing all laws, systems and regulations which snatched personal and public rights from the minority people including the rights of immigrants and the displaced and affected people.

Developing and enriching the minority groups culturally, socially and economically, as well as boosting relationships among them.