Thousands protest across Kurdistan Region to demand salaries and end to austerity measures
By ICSSI, 29 September 2016. School and university teachers, civil servants and thousands of people took to the streets in...
From Individual Initiatives to Democratic Organizations
Peace and Freedom Organisation in Kurdistan: From individual initiatives to democratic organizations Erbil – 21 to 22 September 2016 –...
Call for collaboration on the implementation of UNESCO recommendations for the Iraqi Marshes!
Statement by the Save the Tigris and Iraqi Marshes Campaign September 22, 2016 Following the 3rd session of the Iraqi...
Murdered Kurdish journalist’s family appeals to international community
Reporters Without Borders Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is relaying an appeal to the international community by the family of Wedad...
Activists Call for a Decrease in the Number and Age of Parliaments Members, and for the Prevention of Security Forces from Participating in Elections
ALMADA PRESS /Baghdad Civil activists are calling for modifying the age at which one can run for parliament or provincial...
Official decision of the Iraqi Marshes’ inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List
Decision: 40 COM 8B.16 The World Heritage Committee, Having examined Documents WHC/16/40.COM/8B, WHC/16/40.COM/INF.8B1 and 1.WHC/16/40.COM/INF.8B2, Inscribes The Ahwar of Southern...
Promised Democracy: The Future of Iraq
LoBelog by Ryan J. Suto The current US presidential campaign debate on Middle East policy has focused disproportionately on the...
POST-SISTANI IRAQ, IRAN, AND THE FUTURE OF SHIA ISLAM
Hayder al-Khoei- war on the Rocks During a recent trip to my hometown of Najaf in southern Iraq, I stumbled...
Seventeen Activist Get Together in Baghdad to Discuss and Improve their Personal Protection During their Daily Work as Defenders of Human Rights
Seventeen activist form (Basra, Arbil, Dhi Qar, Salahuddin, Maysan, Muthanna, Dohuk and Kirkuk)get together in Baghdad to discuss and improving...
Save Iraqi Kurdistan’s rivers from deprivation
By Toon Bijnens, Save the Tigris Campaign There is no question about the commodification of natural resources and the damage...
Kurdish reporter murdered, another killed while covering fighting
Reporters Without Borders Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns a Kurdish reporter’s brutal murder on 13 August in Dahuk, in...
A Lesson How To Live In Peace
Afeef Mohammed – Iraq I’m from Iraq, working in the agricultural & irrigation field, got the...