Human rights are a collection of standards, principles, and values that are all interconnected, indivisible, and significant collectively. Without regard to racial, religious, ethnic, gender, political, cultural, social, or economic status, human rights apply to all people. Some of those laws take shape even in the womb and before birth, and some continue even after death. According to international human rights law, people are entitled to these rights, and that is regardless of their class or occupation.

After World War II, when countless numbers of people were killed, injured tortured, displaced, and denied access to food, this law was passed. Particularly on October 12, 1948, following the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the UN General Assembly. International human rights law became a fundamental branch of international law. 
Human rights law generally consists of nine conventions, each of which addresses a certain aspect of a person's rights or a particular group of people, namely: 
Convention on Civil and Political Rights (1966). 
Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966). 
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1965). 
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979). 
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984). 
Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989). 
Convention on the Rights of Refugee Workers and Their Families (1990). 
Convention against Enforced Disappearance (2006). 
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2008). 

States are primarily and directly accountable for the enforcement of human rights, since they are the main actors in international law and have the authority to sign and implement conventions.  Accordingly, States have a duty and responsibility to respect, protect and enforce human rights. 
 Respect: means that states cannot restrict a person's access to these rights. 

Protection: The state has a duty to defend citizens' rights from violations، both individually and collectively. 
Consolidation: Calls on the state to implement measures that will make it possible for rights to be realized. 

The same obligations apply to Iraq as a state. Iraq has ratified eight more conventions in addition to the Convention on the Rights of Refugee Workers and Their Families. As part of its mandate, Iraq established the High Commission for Human Rights in 2008, which is attached to the House of Representatives. The Commission has three main functions: 

Ensuring respect and strengthening human rights throughout the nation. 
Protecting the rights and freedoms enshrined in the constitution and international agreements signed by Iraq. 
Consolidate, promote and develop culture and principles of human rights. 

In 2010, a law establishing an independent commission for human rights in the Kurdistan Region was passed. According to the law, the commission is in charge of keeping eyes on the state of human rights in light of the conventions that the federal government has signed. That is, according to international law, Iraq decides which treaties to sign and which not. As a federal region, the Kurdistan Region cannot directly sign and implement human rights conventions.