This research examines how human rights were discussed and contested in Iraqi Kurdistan during the 1960s and 1970s, and how those debates evolved over time. It explores regional skepticism toward the so-called “human rights revolution” in the country, situating Kurdish perspectives within broader critiques from the Global South that viewed human rights as tools of Western intervention and neo-colonialism. Drawing on intellectual debates and historical context, Hindy highlights how Kurdish and Arab thinkers engaged with, redefined, or rejected dominant human rights narratives in light of political realities such as the Arab-Israeli conflict and on-going struggles against Western imperialism. Her research offers a critical re-evaluation of human rights discourse from a non-Western perspective.