The Human Rights Unit is one of the units of the College of Science/University of Baghdad, in light of the organizational structure of the colleges affiliated with the University of Baghdad/Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, and its connection is with the Associate Dean for Scientific Affairs.

One of the unit’s tasks is to teach the subjects of human rights and democracy, according to the recent instructions of the Ministry, to limit the teaching of the two subjects to the first stage only, so teaching human rights for the first course, and democracy for the second course, starting from the 2011/2012 academic year.

One of the duties of the Human Rights Unit is to promote a culture of human rights for the student. In the first course, lectures were given that were limited to this period, after it was a full year, in which the student studies the concept of human rights from the definition, descriptions, types and categories, and the historical development of human rights in the ancient civilizations of Iraq, and ancient civilizations Others, and human rights in divine laws, focus on the Islamic conception of human rights, as well as the study of human rights in modern societies, and the statement of legal sources for these rights, as well as the International Bill of Human Rights, in international charters and organizations, intellectual, social, economic and cultural freedoms, and the study of non-governmental organizations .

As for the subject of democracy, the unit’s tasks are in teaching the concept of freedom and its general forms, the historical development of democracies and public freedoms in their three stages, ancient, middle and modern, focusing on the Islamic era, clarifying the basic guarantees for the success of public freedoms, and studying the concept of democracy in terms of definition, principles, components, elements and means of practice, and general conditions. For the success of democratic systems, elections and their conditions, means and methods of conducting them, and the study of pressure groups, in addition to the instructions issued by the Ministry in teaching integrity and administrative corruption.