The role of legislative policy in promoting rights and freedoms and its reflection on good citizenship

Abstract

The universality of human rights is measured, from a legislative
perspective, by the extent to which they are respected and their contents are
adhered to by the internal legal systems of states. It is certain that humanity’s
march towards embodying these rights in practice can only take place by
stipulating them in national legislation and formulating them in binding legal
rules, especially their inclusion in the constitution. This is because it is one of
the biggest guarantees and the shortest way to protect it. There is no doubt that
Iraq's accession to the largest possible number of international conventions on
human rights reflects the political will to respect and protect all rights and
freedoms, by integrating human rights from the global level (ratified
international conventions) to the national legislative level (internal law).Then
these agreements become part of the state's legal system to which all its
authorities are bound.