He’s Not Good Enough For You: In Northern Iraq, Tribal Traditions Build On Ancient Class System

He’s Not Good Enough For You: In Northern Iraq, Tribal Traditions Build On Ancient Class System

Dashty Ali – Niqash Tribal traditions around marriage in northern Iraq prevent young people from marrying outside the social group;...

  • Civil Society News
The Iraqi Social Forum and the Solidarity Center organize series of women’s trade union activities on the occasion of the International Women’s Day

The Iraqi Social Forum and the Solidarity Center organize series of women’s trade union activities on the occasion of the International Women’s Day

On the occasion of the International Women’s day, the Iraqi Social Forum Economic and Social Rights Masar (path) and the...

  • Iraqi Social Forum (ISF)
Open Letter to Bresser Eurasia and Er-Bu İnşaat

Open Letter to Bresser Eurasia and Er-Bu İnşaat

+++ Initiative to Keep Hasankeyf Alive, Turkey +++ Mesopotamian Ecology Movement, Turkey +++ Hasankeyf Matters, Turkey +++ Save the Tigris...

  • Environment
Unions Demand Russia’s LUKoil to Reinstate Laid-off Iraqi Employees

Unions Demand Russia’s LUKoil to Reinstate Laid-off Iraqi Employees

The General Union for Workers in the Oil and Gas (GFWIU), subsidiary of the General Federation of Workers Unions in...

  • Social and Economic Rights
Representation of Women in Political Parties, Electoral Commission and Legislative Authorities

Representation of Women in Political Parties, Electoral Commission and Legislative Authorities

On 25 February 2017, Shahrazad, the Iraqi Women’s Journalist Forum, the Arabica Women’s Union and the Governance Centre for Public...

  • Human Rights
The Shahrazad Legal Clinic: Celebrating One Year of Legal Support for WHRDs Around Iraq

The Shahrazad Legal Clinic: Celebrating One Year of Legal Support for WHRDs Around Iraq

The Shahrazad Legal Clinic is a unique place in Baghdad, hosted by the Iraqi Women Journalists’ Forum, where a professional...

  • Human Rights
Water as a Force for Peace

Water as a Force for Peace

The changing of the guard on the 38th floor of the United Nations building in New York, with Antonio Guterres...

  • Environment
Protests in Iranian city where “Everything is covered in brown dust”

Protests in Iranian city where “Everything is covered in brown dust”

TEHRAN — Days of protests over dust storms, power failures and government mismanagement in one of Iran’s most oil-rich cities...

  • Environment
ICSSI contributes to the launch of the Observatory to Prevent Extremist Violence (OPEV)

ICSSI contributes to the launch of the Observatory to Prevent Extremist Violence (OPEV)

ICSSI contributes to the launch of the Observatory to Prevent Extremist Violence (OPEV) and invites its members to join the...

  • Nonviolence
Tahrir Square Victims: Martyrs of Continuous Nonviolent Iraqi Struggle

Tahrir Square Victims: Martyrs of Continuous Nonviolent Iraqi Struggle

The Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative – February 20, 2017  On Saturday February 11, Baghdad, the capital of Iraq witnessed...

  • Nonviolence
World Wetlands Day: what measures will be taken to safeguard the Iraqi Marshes?

World Wetlands Day: what measures will be taken to safeguard the Iraqi Marshes?

On the occasion of World Wetlands Day, February 2, the Ministry of Water Resources in Iraq held an official event...

  • Environment
Founding Statement of Sport Against Violence-Iraq

Founding Statement of Sport Against Violence-Iraq

Baghdad – 25 December 2016 We believe in the values of peace citizenship; we want Iraq to be free and...

  • Sports Against Violence