On 23 April 2014, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) issued an Opinion considering Shawki Ahmad Omar's the detention to be arbitrary and says the Iraqi government has a duty to release him. Wrongly accused, under the mistaken identity of a Palestinian national, of "illegal entry" to the country, Shawki Omar has now spent over ten years behind bars in Iraq.

On 3 November 2014, Iraq's second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) was held at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. This process aims to assess, every four years, the human rights record of each United Nations' Member State by the Human Rights Council (HRC). Since its first UPR, Iraq's human rights situation has deteriorated as a result of the civil war and internal divisions following the US occupation, and coupled to the regional turmoil. Iraq's weak institutions are still unable to prevent the abuse of power and to hold perpetrators of serious human rights abuses to account. Sustained efforts will need to be made by the Iraqi authorities to address the increase in human rights violations.

On 16 October 2014, Alkarama and Al Wissam Humanitarian Assembly sent a communication to the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) to bring its attention to the case of Mohamad and Nouhad al Mashhadani, two brothers who disappeared since their arrest by members of the security forces in 2005.

On 24 September 2014, Alkarama and Al Wissam Humanitarian Assembly wrote to Emmanuel Decaux, Chairman of the Committee on Enforced Disappearance (CED) to call on the Iraqi authorities to release Jamal Hadi Abdel Raouf Al Abdali, disappeared since his arrest by a security patrol on 21 April 2014.