Masarat: Report on Iraqi Minority’s Rights Violations
Masarat has launched the English copy of its firs report about rights violations of Iraqi minorities, which consists of 144...
The Employee Commission of the Southern Oil Company: The state of the Southern Oil Company and, more broadly, the entire Oil Sector within Iraq is Deteriorating
Basra Wednesday, 23 December 2015 The Employee Commission of the Southern Oil Company held a large demonstration on the morning...
Iraq: Daesh Atrocities Fuelled by Decades of Reckless Arms Trading
Source: Amnesty International, December 2015. Decades of poorly regulated arms flows into Iraq as well as lax controls on the...
Messy Missions: Uncoordinated Diplomacy Takes Iraqi Kurdish Political Crisis to the World
Kawa Sheikh-Abdulla Niqash – Sulaimaniya Three diplomatic missions left Iraqi Kurdistan over the last fortnight. But they only served to...
Choosing to Return? Prospects for Durable Solutions in Iraq
OXFAM Executive Summary – December 2015 Nearly ten months since the earliest reports of returnees in parts of the country, a...
Cultural heritage in times of conflict in Syria and Iraq: a case for prosecution?
By Toon Bijnens, ICSSI The Hague, December 2015 In a landmark case for cultural crimes, the first person charged with...
The Perpetual Coma of “COP21”: Climate Change Conference in Paris and Iraqi Civil Society
*Ismaeel Dawood Paris, 12 December 2015 Recent news has been dominated by the negotiations of presidents in the ongoing world...
Save the Tigris and Iraqi Marshes Campaign Youth Camp in the Marshes of Al-Chibayish
ICSSI Baghdad, 2 December 2015 For three days, Iraqi youth activists of the Save the Tigris River and the Iraqi Marshes Campaign...
Nechirvan Barzani: We Seek to Improve the Mechanisms of Application for Anti-violence Against Women Laws
ZagrosTV – Erbil On Thursday, in the capital city of Erbil, events to compact violence against women were launched with...
‘I’ll Warm Myself on Fire of Revenge’: Hatred Hangs in Ruins of Iraq’s Sinjar
SINJAR, IRAQ Reuters – BY ISABEL COLES The picnic tables on the mountainside overlooking the town of Sinjar are a...
The Parliamentary Committee for Women Adopts the Study of Shahrazad Campaign on Sexual Harassment in the Iraqi Society
On Tuesday, 17 Nov. 2015, the Parliamentary Committee for Women’s Affairs and the Iraqi Women Journalists Forum held a meeting...
The Blighted City – The Shocking Decline of Iraq’s Oil Capital
The Economist – Basrah WHEN not organising protests at the gates of Basra’s giant oilfields, jobless graduates spend their days playing...