Thematic Issues


Focus on Iraq at the World Social Forum 2015

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...

  • Environment
GFWU in Basrah Celebrates the International Labor Day

GFWU in Basrah Celebrates the International Labor Day

In the first of May, on the sound of drums, the celebrations began in Basra on the occasion of International...

  • Social and Economic Rights
Iraq calls for regional strategic investments projects in the Tigris-Euphrates basin

Iraq calls for regional strategic investments projects in the Tigris-Euphrates basin

Shafaq News On Wednesday, Iraq called for the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to be the foundation of joint cooperation projects...

  • Environment
Civil Society Launches a Campaign to Save the Cultural Heritage of Iraq

Civil Society Launches a Campaign to Save the Cultural Heritage of Iraq

 Baghdad \ London \ Rome \ March 29th, 2015   A group of civil society organizations and intellectuals in Iraq,...

  • Heritage
IWPR Iraq Director Killed in Baghdad

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...

  • Freedom of Expression
Standing With Iraqi Women and Activists at the World Social Forum

Standing With Iraqi Women and Activists at the World Social Forum

By Suzanne DeRouen, ICSSI Volunteer from the USA (April 2015). On March 28, the World Social Forum (WSF) in Tunis,...

  • Iraqi Social Forum (ISF)
Shahrazad: mobilizing civil society and public opinion against underage marriage and sexual harassment in Iraq

Shahrazad: mobilizing civil society and public opinion against underage marriage and sexual harassment in Iraq

Emtinan Hikmat_ Almasala Organization Report on workshop, Erbil, 8-10/ March/ 2015 Based on the firm conviction that another Iraq is...

  • Right of Political Participation of Women
SYRIA/IRAQ – Security Council Asked to Refer Crimes Against Journalists in Syria and Iraq to ICC

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...

  • Freedom of Expression
Embattled Civil Society Organizations (CSO) Assistance Fund

Embattled Civil Society Organizations (CSO) Assistance Fund

“The Lifeline team heard our voice at a time when hope was dying for us to continue efforts for human rights especially for...

  • Human Rights
Launching the Fifth Workshop for Investigative Journalism

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...

  • Freedom of Expression
Global Human Rights  Defenders Fund

Global Human Rights Defenders Fund

The Global Human Rights Defenders Fund (HRDF) provides short term assistance, including emergency funds, to human rights defenders (HRDs), including...

  • Human Rights
Digital Security Training

Digital Security Training

In the program planned to resume trainings on digital safety and security for the protection of software, information and data...

  • Human Rights