The Committee on Economic, social and cultural Rights (CESCR) has concluded its 56th session on 9 October 2015 and issued its concluding observations on the report of Iraq. In 2014, the international community witnessed the human rights situation in Iraq go from bad to worse as levels of terrorist and sectarian militia violence and the civilian death toll increased dramatically. The situation we face today, with the apparent disregard for the basic economic, social and cultural rights of the Iraqi people, is not the product of internal factors alone.
