The IHCHR reports that it continues to receive complaints from individuals and civil society, and investigations have been carried out into allegations of human rights violations. The IHCHR also indicates that it receives complaints from its monitoring of places of deprivation of liberty. Referencing the statistics of complaints received in 2024 (1,042), the IHCHR highlights enforced disappearance and torture as the main categories of complaints received.

The IHCHR further indicates that it has submitted reports and recommendations on these complaints to various state actors and has followed up on their implementation. Acknowledging the decline in the receipt of complaints since 2021, the IHCHR states that the decline is unrelated to the leadership of the Minister of Justice. However, the IHCHR attributed the decline to the improved security situation and relative political stability since 2021, as opposed to the transitional period following the liberation of territories from ISIS.

The SCA acknowledges the information provided by the IHCHR and the efforts undertaken to address human rights complaints. The SCA is however still concerned about the continuous decrease in the number of individual complaints and allegations of human rights violations as reported by the IHCHR.

The SCA therefore reiterates its previous recommendation calling on the IHCHR to strengthen its efforts to raise public awareness on its mandate to protect human rights and address all human rights violations, in particular to increase public confidence in its complaints-handling mandate.

The SCA refers to Paris Principles A.1, A.2, A.3, and D(d) and its General Observations 1.2 on ‘Human rights mandate’, as well as 1.6 on ‘Recommendations by NHRIs’.

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