Minority Rights Forum, held in Geneva, Switzerland, recommended Member States of the United Nations General Assembly to enact specific legislations prohibiting and punishing questioning, arrests and inspections based solely or primarily on racial or ethnic profiling. The forum's eighth edition, held under the auspices of the UN Human Rights Council, called on world states to issue a detailed and practical guidance to all law enforcement officials on how to ensure the application of the law in a fair and non-discriminatory manner without targeting particular minorities. The forum's closing session stressed that criminal justice system must combat targeting ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities which brings about long term sufferings, calling upon prosecutors and other judicial authorities to strictly follow up complaints filed by minority groups against any violations. All countries have to build a climate of trust between minorities and governments to fight culture of impunity, which may encourage further crimes of violence against minorities, the forum recommended. The Forum sessions have increasingly slammed international inaction towards crimes committed against minorities in the Middle East, particularly those by Islamic state militants, and the world failure to provide necessary protection for them. Minority groups including the Germany-based People's Assyrian Chaldean Syriac and the Democratic Shabak Community as well as the Yazidi organization, based in the Netherlands, filed a memorandum to the Minority Rights Forum and the UN Human Rights on genocide and ethnic cleansing against Yazidis, Shabak, Christians Chaldean Syriac Assyrians in Iraq's Sinjar, Nineveh. Edited by Alaa Awad
