processes. To guarantee everyone's rights, the Commission issued a number of regulations governing media broadcasting, along with general directives on accuracy and balance in news broadcasting as well as refrainment from inciting to violence and hate. - According to security plans prepared in advance, the Iraqi government makes sure that all churches and other places of worship for religious and other ethnic groups are adequately protected. During the days leading up to Christmas and the New Year, additional security measures are taken to prevent terrorists and outlaws from carrying out their plans by attacking citizens, causing casualties among them, or interfering with ceremonies of their own religious rituals. - Through its Human Rights Section, the Ministry of Education protects the rights of minorities by promoting tolerance and acceptance of others. The Ministry works with civil society organizations to carry out awareness activities through the country’s educational satellite channel, the media, and poster campaigns. It furthermore organizes workshops and meetings with civil society organizations and associations concerned with minority rights, and builds the concept of those rights into the standard textbooks. - The Ministry of Justice holds training workshops aimed at introducing the principles and concepts of human rights mechanisms. The High Commission for Human Rights and the Independent Commission for Human Rights in the Kurdistan Region strive to consolidate and enhance the values of human rights culture through organizing workshops, conferences, training programs and promoting publications. 8, Impasse Colombelle 1218 Grand Scaonnex, Geneva, Switzerland www.mofa.gov.iq orgs.genpm@mofa.gov.iq Tel.: +41 229180980 Fax: +41 227330326