Thematic Issues

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

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...

  • Social and Economic Rights
Cultural heritage in times of conflict in Syria and Iraq: a case for prosecution?

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...

  • Heritage
The Perpetual Coma of “COP21”: Climate Change Conference in Paris and Iraqi Civil Society

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...

  • Civil Society News
Save the Tigris and Iraqi Marshes Campaign Youth Camp in the Marshes of Al-Chibayish

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...

  • Environment
Nechirvan Barzani: We Seek to Improve the Mechanisms of Application for Anti-violence Against Women Laws

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...

  • Right of Political Participation of Women
‘I’ll Warm Myself on Fire of Revenge’: Hatred Hangs in Ruins of Iraq’s Sinjar

‘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...

  • Minorities and IDPs
The Parliamentary Committee for Women Adopts the Study of Shahrazad Campaign on Sexual Harassment in the Iraqi Society

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...

  • Right of Political Participation of Women
The Blighted City – The Shocking Decline of Iraq’s Oil Capital

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...

  • Civil Society News
There is No Military Solution to Violent Extremism

There is No Military Solution to Violent Extremism

As a reaction to the deadly attacks by Daesh in Beirut and Paris, the Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative together...

  • Nonviolence
Three Reasons Why Some People Downplay the Risk of the Ilisu Dam on Iraq?

Three Reasons Why Some People Downplay the Risk of the Ilisu Dam on Iraq?

In this intervention, the Save the Tigris River and the Iraqi Marshes Campaign aims to review the three most important...

  • Environment
After KRG Formally Welcomes Jews Back to Iraq, Will their Numbers Increase?

After KRG Formally Welcomes Jews Back to Iraq, Will their Numbers Increase?

Al-Monitor – BAGHDAD, Iraq Many Iraqi Jews forced from their country or displaced following persecution and dispossession more than six decades ago still...

  • Minorities and IDPs
UN Delegation Visits Dhi Qar Province to Assess A Possible Inclusion of the Marshes’ in the World Heritage List

UN Delegation Visits Dhi Qar Province to Assess A Possible Inclusion of the Marshes’ in the World Heritage List

Shafaq News The administration of Dhi Qar province said on Thursday that a delegation from the United Nations experts visited...

  • Environment