Committees News

The Human Rights Committee plans to visit prisons, shelters, women's rights organisations, and the directorates on combating domestic violence; the Health Committee meets the head of Kurdistan's Physicians Syndicate to discuss amendments to health legislation and drafting patients rights legislation, read more...

Deputy Speaker Hemin Hawrami on 25th June chaired a meeting of the heads of Kurdistan Parliament’s standing committees to review their work over the last three months. 

23 June - The Parliament Committee on Education, Higher Education, and Scientific Research on 23 June had a meeting with Mr. Karim Latif, General Director of Examinations at the Ministry of Education. The discussed complaints from Grade 12 pupils that there were mistakes in the final exam question papers. Many parents and pupils raised objections about the exams.

Kurdistan Parliament Speaker Dr. Vala Fareed today welcomed a delegation of British MPs who are members of the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Kurdistan Region. The MPs also met Deputy Speaker Hemin Hawrami, Secretary Muna Kahveci, and the heads of several parliamentary blocs. Both the British and Kurdistani MPs said they want to build on the already close relations and for the UK to provide capacity building to the Kurdistan Parliament.

Parliament's Relations and Kurdish Diaspora Committee yesterday congratulated Kurdish-American Ms Herro Mustafa on her appointment as US Ambassador to Bulgaria. Other committees in recent meetings discussed oil income for paying government employees' salaries, illegal oil refineries, and Iraq's regulation on opening a branch of a foreign company. 

Kurdistan Parliament Deputy Speaker Hemin Hawrami on 18th June welcomed Mr. Rebwar Talabani, Head of Kirkuk Governorate Council. Ms. Jiwan Rojbayani (KDP), Head of Parliament’s Committee on Kurdistani Areas outside the KRG Administrative Area and several committee members also participated in the meeting.

This week, Kurdistan Parliament's committees met with Mr. Rebwar Talabani, the head of Kirkuk Provincial Council; discussed farmers' deliveries to grain silos; and discussed the funding for Slemani governorate's activities as Kurdistan's Capital of Culture. 

The National Democratic Institute and Kurdistan Parliament’s Research Centre on 16th June began a workshop on Parliament's code of conduct for the heads of committees and heads of the parliamentary blocs.

Last week Kurdistan Parliament's committees met the family of a patient who died in the operating theatre, discussed bills on patients' rights and consumer rights, met the Federation of Civil Society Organisations to hear their complaints about taxation, and visited the Erbil Court of Investigation. 

We deeply regret that these Kurdistani areas are not under our authority, areas where farmers and labourers have seen almost an entire year of their hard work completely destroyed. We condemn these acts wherever they have been perpetrated in the Kurdistani areas outside the KRG administrative area.