Compliants Mechanisms for Human Rights Violations: Critical Study

Abstract

The individual complaints mechanism against any violation of human rights is one of the newest and elegant methods which must be studied and concerned. In this research we examine this mechanism by highlighting on the ways of its work at the international level by the committees and international institutions working to protect human rights and the local level represented by the Independent Human Rights Commission in Kurdistan Region. In two sections we discussed the conditions and the procedures for how to end the complaints in the first section and then evaluate the effectiveness of this mechanism to protecting human rights, this study  reached to several results and suggestions, including that the international committees cannot exercise its competence to receive complaints before the announcement of approval from the states, and that the competence of such committees is not considered judicial because the outcomes of the consideration of complaints proceed a recommendation or advice to the State which have violations of its citizens rights. We also recommended that the work of these committees be strengthened through the acceptance by States of their competence without the need to declare approval of that jurisdiction, and it's the time to establish an international court of Human Rights.