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.

On 19 March 2015, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) adopted during its 28th session the outcome of Iraq's Universal Periodic Review (UPR), a process aimed at assessing the human rights record of each UN Member State every four years. During the actual review that took place on 3 November 2014 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Abdulah Al Janabi, Head of the Human Rights Department of Iraq's Ministry of Foreign Affairs had regretted that Iraq was only able to accept 175 of the 229 recommendations made, using the pretext of the challenging security situation and the engagement of the State in combating the Islamic State (IS). In particular, the Iraqi authorities refused all the recommendations related to the establishment of a moratorium for the death penalty or to commit to safeguard other essential human rights such as the rights to freedom of expression, to a fair trial, and not to be subjected to torture.

On 7 May 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers (SR IJL) regarding the case of four high-profile Iraqi lawyers, victims of harassment by the Iraqi authorities, including through arbitrary arrest and detention, and even one extrajudicial execution. Defending political opponents and persons allegedly close to them, the lawyers have all been accused of terrorism in heavily flawed and politically-motivated trials. Carried out between November 2012 and June 2013, these reprisals fit within a wider pattern of persecution against judges and lawyers, in a climate of generalised political repression.

On 30 April 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) regarding the case of Saleh Musa Ahmed Al Baydani, a Yemeni citizen who has been missing for over 10 months from the prison where he had been detained since December 2012. Arrested in August 2009 by U.S. forces when he was only 17, Al Baydani was sentenced to death two years later. His family is extremely concerned by his disappearance, as he remains at high risk of being executed.