Deputy Speaker of the Council of Representatives, Dr. Shakhwan Abdullah, stresses the need to provide full care to the segment of short stature and people with disabilities, and to guarantee their rights through legislation and laws in force.

 

 

The Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi Parliament, Dr. Shakhwan Abdullah Ahmed, received in his official office in Baghdad today, Sunday 9/10/2022, a delegation from the Iraqi Short stature Society, which included Mr. Mustafa Badr, Deputy Speaker of the Society, and Mr. Sarmad Hafez, a member of the Society’s administrative Board. At the beginning of the meeting, the guest delegation expressed its happiness for the warm reception and the opportunity to discuss the issue of short stature and people with disabilities and what they suffer in their daily lives and to search for ways to address their problems and alleviate their daily suffering.

The Deputy Speaker of the Council stressed the need to provide full care for people of short stature and people with disabilities, while calling on the federal government to do justice to them and appoint certificate holders from them in departments and institutions, The basic services and requirements they need must be prepared and their integration into social life, and Abdullah stated that the parliament will work to guarantee their rights through legislation and laws in force and include financial allocations for them in the federal budgets law.

Media Office of the Deputy Speaker of the Iraqi Council of Representatives
Sunday 9 October 2022