Why Accountability for Iraq’s Militias Matters?
Christoph Wilcke – Human Rights Watch Iraq is awash with daily atrocities, with the Daesh reportedly burying people alive, drowning people in...
Statement on Iraq and Falluja by UN OCHA
UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY RELIEF COORDINATOR, STEPHEN O’BRIEN STATEMENT ON IRAQ I am deeply concerned by the...
The First of its Kind in Baghdad: A Traveling Art Festival Celebrating the Workers of Iraq and Expressing Solidarity with their Demands
By ICSSI – Baghdad, May 2016. Throughout the entire day on Saturday, May 15, young people coordinated by the...
Women Human Rights Defenders Challenging Violence in Iraqi Kurdistan
GCHR report says women human rights defenders challenging violence 2016-06-01 Women human rights defenders (WHRDs) in Iraqi Kurdistan face the...
Al-Aimmah Bridge on the Tigris River: Hope for Baghdad and its people
The Iraqi Social Forum and the Save the Tigris Campaign participated in the “ I Have Hope”festival on the Al-Aimmah...
OCHA Iraq: Civilians Fleeing Fallujah Urgently Need Protection and Help
Baghdad – 25 May 2016 – Press release by UNOCHA Iraq. Humanitarian agencies on the ground in Iraq are warning...
Briefing note from the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
24 May 2016 Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Rupert Colville Location: Geneva Iraq We urge the...
No Way To Get Funding: Iraqi Kurdistan’s Law on NGOs Must Change, NGOs Say
By Abdul-Khaleq Dosky – published by Niqash Non-governmental organisations in Iraqi Kurdistan are lobbying for a change in the regional law...
The Protest in Iraq: a National, Popular and Nonviolent Movement
Baghdad, May 2016 Report on a seminar hosted by the Information Center for Research and Development, in the headquarters of...
Protests in Baghdad’s Green Zone Turn Deadly!
ICSSI Baghdad – May 22, 2016 The Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative [ICSSI] has received devastating news from our partners...
Shahrazad Services Center for Women Human Rights Defenders, Sees the Light in Baghdad
The Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative (ICSSI) – May 2016 Women Human Rights Defenders in Iraq, including female journalists, unionists...
Suspension of Ilisu Dam project demanded at Tigris River Valley symposium in Turkey
Batman, Turkey, May 2016 The ancient town of Hasankeyf in Turkey has for years been struggling against the destructive Ilisu...