Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia and the Similar Turkish Case
By: Ahmed az-Zoba`i Translation from Arabic by: Safaa Sheikh Hammed Original Arabic: http://www.iraqnewspaper.net/news.php?action=view&id=22010 “Egypt is the gift of the Nile,” says Herodotus. Egypt could have been part of the Great Arab Desert without the Nile. The same thing can be applied on the Tigris and Euphrates. These two rivers were responsible for the making of the alluvial plain and the fertile soil in Iraq....
Resistance Against Destruction of Taksim Gezi Park
——————————————————————————————————————————————————————-This is a call for INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY International Human Rights Organizations and Dear Friends, Comrades, Press Members from all over the world; This is an urgent call from human rights defenders, activists, NGOs, professional chambers, grassroots, neighbourhood associations and Istanbulites. Since the 27th of May,Istanbulites from all social and political backgrounds and ages and from...
Gezi Park Voices: “We Exist, We are Here and We Have Demands”.
This is the latest press statement of the Taksim Solidarity - http://taksimdayanisma.org/ *** To the Government and the people of the Republic of Turkey Across the country, particularly in Istanbul-Taksim, all the citizens are demonstrating their democratic reaction to the police violence pursued by the government as a response to the social sensitivity to the attempts...
International Activists Block Ilısu Dam Construction Site
Press Release: International Activists Block Ilisu Dam Construction Site Source: Damocracy Representative from the Save the Tigris Campaign participated in the delegation May 21st: Representatives of dam-affected communities and international organizations from South America, the Middle East, Europe, the US, and Africa today blocked the entrance to the construction site of the Ilisu dam in...
The 2013 World Social Forum, a big success in the path of the WSF
Ahmad Jaradat Alternative Information Center- Palestine The 2013 edition of the World Social Forum took place between the 26 to the 30th of March in Tunisia. A lot can be said about World Social Forums, as always, but this one event will for sure mark history. As Tawfeeg Ben Abdallah Coordinator of the African Social...
Rising Violence in Iraq Spurs Fears of New Sectarian War
From The New York Times April 25th, 2013 By Tim Arango BAGHDAD — In what appeared to be a new phase in an intensifying conflict that has raised fears of greater bloodshed and a wider sectarian war, Iraqi soldiers opened fire from helicopters on Sunni gunmen hiding in a northern village on Wednesday, officials said....
Save Tigris Campaign Releases Open Letter to Andritz: Disastrous Impacts of Ilisu Dam for Iraq
To: Mr Wolfgang Leitner, Andritz’s President and CEO From: Save the Tigris Campaign Coalition We are a group of Iraqi civil society organizations that are deeply concerned about the future of our nation’s water resources and the impact the Ilisu dam would have on them if completed. We write to inform you of the dramatic...
Press Release: Save the Tigris Campaign Participates in the International Day of Action Against Dams and For Rivers, Water and Life
People of Iraq Campaign to Save the Tigris announces its support to the global mobilization that took place on the framework of the International Day of Action Against Dams and Rivers, Water and Life yesterday March 14th. People will gather in Muthanabi street, a popular street in downtown Baghdad at 10 am to raise Awareness...
In Preparation for Baghdad Marathon 2013: Italian Delegation Meets Iraqi Civil Society
By: Sultan Ahmed Taleb – Baghdad On March 11th, 2013 Iraqi civil society hosted a race in preparations for Marathon Baghdad 2013. The event was hosted in Physical Education College – University of Baghdad with more than 300 participants. An Italian delegation composed of members of Sports organizations took part in the race. The race...
Demanding To Reform The Journalists Rights Law
Sulaymaniyah / 02.18.2013 The Press Freedom Advocacy Association In Iraq held a seminar on the proposal for a “First Amendment to the law of the rights of journalists,” on Saturday, February 16, 2013, in the city of Sulaimaniya – Kurdistan Region in the presence of about 50 journalists and lawyers from different areas of the...
A Report on the Oil Workers Demonstration on the 13th of February 2013
The oil workers rights defense committee February 18th, 2013 Responding to a call from the Oil workers defense committee, hundreds of workers from various oil fields (North Rumaila, South Rumaila, Birjisyya, West Qurna and Bab Al Zubair), on the morning of Wednesday, February 13th of 2013. The protesters gathered before the main entrance of the...
Civil Society Statement on the Articles of Association of the International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers
Civil Society Statement on the Articles of Association of the International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers From February 19th to 22nd 2013, National Governments, Private Military & Security Companies and Civil Society Organizations will meet in Montreux (Switzerland) to advance the drafting of the International Code of Conduct (ICoC) for Private Security...
