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.