<!--:en-->Flooding the Cradle of Civilization: Campaign Against the Ilisu Dam <!--:-->

Flooding the Cradle of Civilization: Campaign Against the Ilisu Dam

by: Johanna L. Rivera Last year around this time I was in a town called Hasankeyf located along the Tigris...

  • Environment
<!--:en-->Marsh Arabs protest Ilisu Project in Hasankeyf  <!--:--><!--:ar-->عرب الاهوار يحتجون ضد مشروع اليسو في “حسن كيف”<!--:-->

Marsh Arabs protest Ilisu Project in Hasankeyf عرب الاهوار يحتجون ضد مشروع اليسو في “حسن كيف”

Cradle of Civilization at Risk of Desertification – Tigris Declaration sent to UN Hasankeyf, Turkey, May 22, 2012 “We have...

  • Environment
<!--:en-->What Justice for Iraqi Victims of Private Military and Security Companies?<!--:-->

What Justice for Iraqi Victims of Private Military and Security Companies?

The ICSSI Takes Action! The last ten years have seen a dramatic increase in the use of private military and...

  • Private Military Companies
<!--:en-->Federal Appeals Court Permits Suits Against Private Military Contractors for Torture and War Crimes at Abu Ghraib to Proceed<!--:-->

Federal Appeals Court Permits Suits Against Private Military Contractors for Torture and War Crimes at Abu Ghraib to Proceed

Lower Courts to Hear Iraqi Civilians’ Claims of Beatings, Forced Nudity, Broken Bones, and Rape at Hands of Corporate Defendants...

  • Civil Society News
<!--:en-->Baghdad Marathon update<!--:-->

Baghdad Marathon update

The Baghdad Marathon project was born 4 years ago from an Italian Runners group that think that Sports can have...

  • Sports Against Violence
<!--:en-->Motion proposed to Iraqi parliament<!--:-->

Motion proposed to Iraqi parliament

The Civil Peace Initiative in Iraq submitted to the Committee of Civil Society Organizations in the Iraqi Council of Representatives(ICR)...

  • Nonviolence
<!--:en-->Support for the Iraqi campaign to repeal the new journalists’ law<!--:-->

Support for the Iraqi campaign to repeal the new journalists’ law

Iraq’s Journalist Protection Law, approved in August 2011 by the Iraqi Parliament which was facing  international pressure to reform its...

  • Freedom of Expression
<!--:en-->Statement from the Baghdad People’s Summit: “People’s Issues! Not Rulers’ Issues”<!--:-->

Statement from the Baghdad People’s Summit: “People’s Issues! Not Rulers’ Issues”

Statement from the Baghdad People’s Summit “People’s Issues! Not Rulers’ Issues” A large and varied group of Iraqi civil society...

  • Iraqi Voices
<!--:en-->Campaign for Children’s Health in Iraq<!--:-->

Campaign for Children’s Health in Iraq

The Campaign for Children’s Health in Iraq emerged from the Third Annual conference of The Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative...

  • Peacebuilding
<!--:en-->Map of Archaeological and World Heritage Sites in Iraq (Feb 2012)<!--:-->

Map of Archaeological and World Heritage Sites in Iraq (Feb 2012)

The Interagency Information and Analysis Unit of the United Nations has published a new map of the archaeological and World...

  • Civil Society News
<!--:en-->Launch of petition to save World Heritage in Mesopotamia threatened by the Ilisu Dam on the Tigris River<!--:--><!--:ar-->حملة ادخال الاهوار العراقية ضمن الموروث العاملي لليونيسكو<!--:-->

Launch of petition to save World Heritage in Mesopotamia threatened by the Ilisu Dam on the Tigris Riverحملة ادخال الاهوار العراقية ضمن الموروث العاملي لليونيسكو

Launch of petition to save World Heritage in Mesopotamia threatened by the Ilisu Dam on the Tigris River Today a...

  • Civil Society News
<!--:en-->“Summit of peoples, not summit of Rulers” – Statement from Tammuz<!--:-->

“Summit of peoples, not summit of Rulers” – Statement from Tammuz

 “Summit of peoples, not summit of Rulers”   There are preparations are made for doing the Arabic summit in Baghdad...

  • Iraqi Voices