Articles for Iraq

On 14 July 2015, Alkarama and Al Wissam Humanitarian Assembly sent a communication to the United Nations Committee of Enforced Disappearances (CED) regarding the disappearance of an Iraqi worker, Omar Saadoun Nayef Al Saab, following his abduction by government forces in Baghdad in June 2014.

On 14 July 2015, Alkarama and Al Wissam Humanitarian Assembly submitted an urgent action to the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) regarding the case of Yahya and Moussa Al Jabouri, two brothers who disappeared following their abduction by government forces in July 2014.

On 14 July 2014, Alkarama, in cooperation with Al Wissam Humanitarian Assembly, sent an urgent action to the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) regarding the case of Khamis Al Ghurery, a 37-year-old Iraqi citizen who disappeared following his arrest by military officers in June 2014.

On 13 July 2015, Alkarama sent its shadow report on the situation of torture in Iraq to the United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT), in view of the country's upcoming review by the Committee during its

On 2 July 2015, Alkarama and Al Wissam Humanitarian Assembly submitted an urgent appeal to the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) regarding the case of Anwar Al Kawaz, who disappeared following his arrest by masked men in military trousers in August 2014. Almost a year later, in May 2015, Anwar's older brother, Firas disappeared in similar circumstances.

On 12 June 2015, Alkarama sent an appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (SR SUMX), Christof Heyns, asking him to urgently call upon Iraq to investigate the death of 40-year-old father and member of former Vice President, Al Hashimi's security personnel, Amir Al Batawi, who died under torture in Baghdad on 15 March 2012.

On 2 June 2015, the Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights (IHCHR) – the Iraqi National Human Rights Institution (NHRI), created in April 2012 – was awarded the "B" status by the International Coordinating Committee of NHRIs (ICC) to mark the Iraqi NHRI's non-full compliance with the

On 20 May 2015, Alkarama and Al Wissam Humanitarian Assembly sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture (SRT) regarding the case of Mohammed Abbas Kadhim Al Sudani, a 29-year old married worker and an agent in the intelligence services of the Mosul federal police.

On 8 May 2015, Alkarama in cooperation with Al Wissam Humanitarian Assembly sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) regarding the case of Riyadh Ibrahim Yacob Al Obaidi, a 54-year-old professor from Al Nisour University College, Baghdad University, who has been missing since his arrest by the Counter Terrorism Force in Baghdad in May 2014.

During its 113th session held in March 2015, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (HRCttee) – a body of 18 independent experts that monitors implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (