Honduran anti-dam activist Berta Cáceres murdered
With great sadness The Save the Tigris Campaign has learned of the assassination of Honduran environmental and human rights activist...
Thematic Issues
Statement of Establishment of the Moroccan Coalition for Climate Justice
Numerous Moroccan organizations, associations, unions, civil society networks and social movements met on 7 February 2016 in Rabat within the...
The Killing of 58 Woman for Honor Reasons During One Year in Kurdistan Region
Shafaq News Alhayat Group for the defense of women’s rights in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, have announced that the...
Freedom of Expression is Severely Threatened: Attacks on Journalists and Human Rights Defenders are Multiplying and the Government is Powerless to Stop Them!
Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative (ICSSI) March 2016 With the growth of peaceful protests and demands for radical change and...
The Union of Kurdish Students in Syria stands in solidarity with Iraqi activists
Dilibrin Khalil (UKSSD) – Istanbul, February 2016. The Union of Kurdish Students in Syria and Deutschland (UKSSD) was established...
Iraqi unions and the opportunity to play a key role in social forums
Wesam Chasib Oudah (Iraq Program Manager, Solidarity Center), February 2016. Iraqi unions and the signs of hope The load of...
Back to Iraq: US Military Contractors Return In Droves
MARCUS WEISGERBER – Defense One Behind the president’s directive to ‘accelerate’ the counter-ISIS campaign came a surge in the number...
Iraq: Are Women Going To Be Represented in the New Cabinet?
Muhamed Hassan – Feb 22, 2016 – Immersed in Thinking Blog. Iraqi politics has been sharply defined by the absence...
A Shocking Attack on Peaceful Protesters in Nasiriyah — We Demand that the Offenders be held Accountable!
Istanbul – February 2016 Statement released by the Iraqi Social Forum and The Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative (ICSSI) ...
A Clear Violation of Freedom of Expression in Iraqi Kurdistan!
On the morning of Sunday 31 January 2016, in front of the Kurdistan Region Parliament – Iraq, in its capital,...
Land Transport Company Management Fires on Employees and Workers Demonstrating for their Rights
By ICSSI, Jan 31, 2016. Employees and workers of the General Company for Land Transport demonstrated on January 25 in...
What will happen to Iraq’s Mandaeans?
By Saad Salloum – Al monitor – Jan 19, 2016. BAGHDAD — Unlike other religious minorities in Iraq, Sabian Mandaeans meet...