Geneva International Centre for Justice (GICJ) is participating in the review of Iraq at the 9th session of the United Nations Committee on Enforced disappearances, from 7 to 18 September 2015 and has submitted to the Committee its shadow report on Enforced Disappearances in Iraq, expressing its grave concern about the ongoing, widespread and systematic practice of arbitrary arrest and abduction by the Iraqi authorities and its affiliated militias which in most cases result in enforced disappearances.