When Heritage in Iraq Becomes a Strategic Asset: From Conflict Target to Marker of Peace
Paper prepared prior to the 2017 meeting of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Krakow, Poland, 2-12 July 2017. The...
Save the Tigris and Marshes
Save the Tigris and Marshes is a civil society campaign advocating for the protection of the Tigris-Euphrates river basin and the Mesopotamian Marshes. Over time, the initiative has grown into an international advocacy platform working on water justice, ecological protection, and the democratic governance of water resources across Iraq and the wider Mesopotamian region. Today, the campaign continues its work through the Save the Tigris Foundation, based in the Netherlands.
Website: https://savethetigris.org
The Iraqi Social Forum on a Working Tour in Southern Iraq
The Iraqi Social Forum and the Humat Dijlah Association held a number of meetings with local officials and activists from...
Protecting the Environment through Collaboration and Creative Recycling: A Workshop by Humat Dijlah
Humat Dijla has recently launched its working on ‘Water Rights and the Protection of Mesopotamia’s Rivers’, as part of the...
Iraq Fears Famed Marshes Could Be Pulled from World Heritage List
Hassan al-Shanoun, Al-Monitor The Iraqi government is committed to keeping the Mesopotamian Marshes on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Located in the...
Water Activists Meet Privately with the Minister of Water Resources, Dr. Hassan Al-Janabi
Activists from the Save the Tigris Campaign, Iraqi Social Forum and Humat Dijla were invited to meet with Iraqi Minister...
Statement on Arrest of National Geographic Photographer Mathias Depardon and the Imminent Move of the Zeynel Bey Tomb
By Ercan Ayboga, Initiative to Keep Hasankeyf Alive Yesterday local sources reported that the Zeynel Bey Tomb in Hasankeyf, which...
“Our Marshes”, First Civil Society Coalition to Protect the Iraqi Marshes
The Iraqi Social Forum and Humat Dijlah Association The unknown fate that has prevailed the future of the Iraqi marshlands...
Safeguarding Hoor al-Azim Lagoon: Stop Land Degradation in West of Iran
Petition to Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations, by the People’s Campaign to Suppor the Kind Zagros in...
Fostering solidarity across borders to protect the shared rivers of Mesopotamia!
Statement by the Save the Tigris and Iraqi Marshes Campaign Increasingly water resources are becoming a source of conflict in...
Iraqi reading of the Convention on the Law of the Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses
Iraqi reading of the Convention on the Law of the Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses [1] The 1997 Convention on the...
The Second Season of Humat Dijlah Festival: An Important Space to Raise Water Issues
Ali Alkarkhi, Humat Dijla On the occasion of the International Day of Action for Rivers (14th of March) and the...
Iraq and the Convention on the Law of the Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses of 1997
Ismaeel Dawood Introduction To change the position of Iraqi authorities on the issue of shared water resources from non-commitment to...