Thematic Issues


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
Environmental and governmental organizations demand the revitalization of the Marshlands

Environmental and governmental organizations demand the revitalization of the Marshlands

 Al-Mada Press / Dhi Qar Environmental and governmental organizations warned on Thursday of the deteriorating environmental situation in the Iraqi...

  • Environment
Statement of Iraqi Women Network in Commemoration of 15th Anniversary of UN Res. 1325

Statement of Iraqi Women Network in Commemoration of 15th Anniversary of UN Res. 1325

Baghdad, Oct 31st, 2015 We passed the 15th anniversary of the adoption of Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace...

  • Right of Political Participation of Women
Oil Workers Unite and Protest the Decision to Reduce their Salaries

Oil Workers Unite and Protest the Decision to Reduce their Salaries

Abu Watan: ‘You left corrupters to enjoy the spoils of their theft, and struck at us with an iron fist!’...

  • Social and Economic Rights
Results of the review session of Iraq on the Covenant on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights

Results of the review session of Iraq on the Covenant on Social, Economic and Cultural Rights

The Save the Tigris and Iraqi Marshes Campaign presented a shadow report covering the water situation in Iraq as part...

  • Environment
Documented Biographies of 48 Abducted Journalists and 13 Journalists Executed by Daash

Documented Biographies of 48 Abducted Journalists and 13 Journalists Executed by Daash

October 27, 2015 –  Journalistic Freedoms Observatory (JFO) and Reporters Without Borders (RWB) Since the group calling itself “the Islamic State”...

  • Freedom of Expression
Shahrazad Festival at the Second Session of the Iraqi Social Forum  

Shahrazad Festival at the Second Session of the Iraqi Social Forum  

Iraqi Women Journalists Forum (IWJF) – October 2015 In Abu Nawas gardens, near the Tigris River in the heart of...

  • Right of Political Participation of Women
Serious Threats to Freedom of the Press in Kurdistan

Serious Threats to Freedom of the Press in Kurdistan

Widespread attacks against journalists and their organizations Since the protest movements in Kurdistan began, they have been overwhelmingly peaceful as...

  • Freedom of Expression
Journalists Targeted for Covering Anti-corruption Protests

Journalists Targeted for Covering Anti-corruption Protests

Source: Reporters without Boarders Reporters Without Borders condemns the many cases of threats and physical violence against journalists covering the...

  • Freedom of Expression
Extraordinary Success of the Second Session of the Iraqi Social Forum!

Extraordinary Success of the Second Session of the Iraqi Social Forum!

Press Statement – Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative (ICSSI) Baghdad – Monday, Oct 5th, 2015 The Iraqi Social Forum (ISF)...

  • Iraqi Social Forum (ISF)