Sunday, June 12, 2011

Parliament end the second reading of the legal protection of journalists and the Ministry of Youth

Snip ~ In the meantime, through Nujaifi hope that the Committee to reach a new version of the bill are consistent with the prevalent opinion in order to be voting on it. It was also decided to adjourn the meeting until tomorrow, Tuesday.

13/06/2011

Parliament end the second reading of the legal protection of journalists and the Ministry of Youth

بغداد ـ الصباح Baghdad morning

House of Representatives yesterday ended the second reading of the draft legal protection of journalists and the Ministry of Youth and Sports.

The Parliament resumed its sessions yesterday of the regular legislative session after the holiday, the first legislature, where he attended a meeting of only 184 deputies out of 325 deputies.

At the beginning of the meeting stressed the President of Parliament Osama Nujaifi the importance of completing the laws and control over the performance of the government and cooperate with ...

He stressed the need to work actively to serve the people. The other hand, varied views of Representatives on agreement terms and paragraphs Law of the Ministry of Youth and Sports with the Constitution, With A number of deputies that the presence of such a ministry in conflict with certain constitutional provisions, especially with the texts on the establishment of regional and powers, he drew others to the ministry bears daunting tasks for the advancement of sports and by young people.

The proposed MP triumph of good to cancel some of the definitions contained in the law and the establishment of Community Sports and cultural and sports for both sexes, and interest in sport feminism. MP Bayazid Hassan was invited to amend certain paragraphs in the law and taking into account the need for the provinces to some of the disciplines with the importance of having the validity of investment land to the Ministry of instead of the minister.

And MP Qasim Mohammad Qasim importance to solve the overlap between the activities of the ministry and other ministries and the need not determine the number of deputy ministers. In turn drew the Attorney Sabah al-Saadi to a contradiction between the draft law and the constitutional powers, especially as the implementation of this law needs to be cooperation between the government and the regions in the field of sports. For its part, MP Fatima Hamidi proposed that the draft law includes attention to the younger age groups and to provide full care in the field of sports for this slide.

He also called MP Walid al-Hilli to be the financing of the forums and sports clubs, self with Merdha from allocations from the government with the need to work on the establishment of the Institute of Educational for raising and building cadres of youth not only on the sporting side, but also to respect for human rights, democracy and love among people.

During the discussion of Representatives law to protect journalists before the completion of reading a second reading, interventions focused on the importance of changes to the project and the need for the inclusion of all journalists working for media law, in addition to the need to increase the amount of compensation to the victims and enable the media to access information freely.

Habib MP has called terminal to identify the concerned authority to grant pension to the martyrs and the injured journalists.

While demanded MP Fatima Hamidi enactment of a law for journalists includes duties and obligations. MP Saad Hamza has called not to withhold information from Asahveyen pursuant to the openness that is witnessed by Iraq after the fall of the dictatorship. In turn, urged Attorney nice Mustafa on the importance that the draft law was developed mechanisms to deal with failure of state institutions to provide information to reporters.

For his part, MP Hamid Buffy to work to amend the press law and to protect the rights of journalists without discrimination and not to restrict press belonging to the Association certain. MP Ammar Tohme has demanded to increase the amount of pension to the martyrs or the disabled journalists. He Attorney Saman Fawzi importance of amending some articles contained in the draft law in order to meet the rights of journalists. For his part, MP Hassan Mahmoud need to include a draft law tightening punishment if committed as a crime journalist.

And MP Abbas al-Bayati said the law is important and necessary and must be approved despite what will happen to some shortcomings in order to protect the families of journalists, victims, while MP Bahaa al-on the necessity to include measures of protection of all journalists working in institutions is realized on the vacation of the Journalists Syndicate.

And submitted to the Committee on Culture and the media response to the interventions of Representatives on the amendment to the bill which focused on the work to make adjustments to fit with the importance of law, in addition to the urgent need to legislate laws again, especially will be complementary to the law to protect journalists, as well as the issue of whether the Press Syndicate as the sole representative of the journalists are still being highly controversial, as the Press Association Law need to be modifications suited to the realities of the new Iraq.

She drew the Committee to work on a degree standard and a measure of the salary of a journalist and subject to change depending on the overall situation, noting that it will display an integrated law on the House of Representatives for a vote.

In the meantime, through Nujaifi hope that the Committee to reach a new version of the bill are consistent with the prevalent opinion in order to be voting on it. It was also decided to adjourn the meeting until tomorrow, Tuesday.