A main obstacle during this pandemic was the concern for the safety of staff working in the field, as many of them have been infected and one case of death has been reported. The challenges included a lack of safety equipments along with the absence of any policies that serve to protect health workers. In order to overcome these challenges, safety equipments were provided and the staff have been efficiently trained on using them. The pandemic has resulted in the withdrawal of some of the Commission’s powers, including the field visits to prisons; hindering the process of dealing with detainees’ files, who were amongst the most affected categories. Additionally, among the most vulnerable groups are, people living in slums, people with chronic diseases and cancer patients, members of the general security forces and security personnel, front-line healthcare workers, displaced persons, and the minorities. Due to the complicated situation, co-operation has been halted, but the Commission has tried to work to around it and make it work by monitoring the situation there from the perspective of “right to health” and referring that to the authority; however, there was no any real response from them. Institutions need to co-operate with their counterparts including regional institutions and networks to pursue an approach to create a crisis response plan. The Commission stated that the major challenge in Iraq is the difficulty of monitoring the concerned executive bodies responsible for the realization of the right to health and implementation of recommendations of international and national bodies. To further emphasize the challenges, in a meeting with the Minister of Health, recommendations were raised to the government and issued three official reports regarding following-up the implementation of the preventive measures during the pandemic; unfortunately, they have not been implemented yet, however the Commission will continue to follow-up on these reports. 10