Focus on Iraq at the World Social Forum 2015
By Martina Pignatti Morano (Un ponte per… and ICSSI ) – April 2015. The World Social Forum has always been...
Freedom of Expression
Campaign struggling for the freedom of expression and the freedom of the press in Iraq, and for the respect of international standards by the Iraqi government.
IWPR Iraq Director Killed in Baghdad
The Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative mourns the loss of Ammar, Director of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting...
SYRIA/IRAQ – Security Council Asked to Refer Crimes Against Journalists in Syria and Iraq to ICC
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is asking the UN Security Council to refer the situation in Syria and Iraq, where war...
Launching the Fifth Workshop for Investigative Journalism
NUIJ On Wednesday, as part of a program initiated by the National Union of Iraqi Journalists last year, the fifth...
Painful Career Path for Women Journalists
Sabreen Kadhum There is substantial evidence pointing to the fact that women working in visual, audio or print media...
Iraqi Journalists Likely to Face Exponential Rise in Risks in 2015
ICSSI: Suzanne DeRouen Reporters Without Borders’ (RWB) 2015 World Press Freedom Index reports that, due to the presence of Daesh...
Iraq … A Country in the Throes of Transformation and State Building
Oday Hatem Nearly 12 years after the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime, which was supposed to bring about a transition...
Iraq: Bodyguards of the National Security Advisor Attack A Group of Journalists
Source: Gulf Center for Human Rights On 18 February 2015, a group of journalists was attacked by the bodyguards of...
The Iraqi Coalition for Freedom of Expression in Solidarity with the Sudanese Journalist Madiha Abdullah
Baghdad – Feb 10th, 2015 The Iraqi Coalition for Freedom of Expression is demanding that Sudanese authorities halt the prosecution...
The Iraqi Coalition for Freedom of Expression Participates in Parliamentary Hearing
Baghdad – Iraqi Woman Journalist’s Forum The Iraqi Coalition for Freedom of Expression participated, along with a group of media...
The Ministry of Communications Continue to Withhold Iraqi and Arab News Websites
17 Jan. 2015 – JFO Iraqi and Arab media institutions continue to suffer from blocking their websites inside Iraq, since...
KRG Authorities Detain a Journalist for One Year
2 Jan. 2015 – JFO The Journalistic Freedoms Observatory expressed its concern about the continuing detention of a journalist by...