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 Paris Principles – a set of international standards relating to the status of NHRIs. To Alkarama, which had called upon the ICC to award it the "C" status to mark its full non-compliance of the Iraqi HCHR with international standards, the ICC's decision is a "vote of encouragement" to a newly created NHRI which must quickly incorporate the recommendations made by the ICC's Sub-Committee on Accreditation (SCA) that reviewed the IHCHR in March 2015.

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. Arrested in the middle of the night from his house in Baghdad in November 2014, Al Sudani was secretly detained for almost six months, a time during which he was subjected to severe torture. Currently detained in Taji prison, north of Baghdad, he remains at high risk of torture, and of being sentenced on the sole basis of confessions extracted under torture.

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 (ICCPR) by its State parties – adopted a List of 26 Issues to be discussed during Iraq's fifth review in October-November 2015. In particular, the HRCtte asked Iraq to answer questions related to the State's counter-terrorism measures, use of the death penalty, practice of torture and incommunicado detention, and fair trial procedures. The State party is due to provide its answers in writing before then.