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...
Thematic Issues
Ministry of Oil and BP Must Be Held Accountable for Negligence and Fatal Accidents
January 16, 2014 The Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative (ICSSI) supports the demands of the employees of South Oil Company...
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...
Al-Qushla: Iraq’s Oasis of Free Expression
Al Jazeera – Baghdad On Friday mornings, Yasser Kian and his friends leave behind the pressures of work and school and...
Mission Report to Iraqi Kurdistan Finds Media and Civil Society at Risk!
2014-12-31 – gc4hr Many see Iraqi Kurdistan, an autonomous region in Northern Iraq, as a safe haven, a place of relative...
Iraqis Wage New Battle for Freedoms!
Shukur Khilkhal – Al-monitor The battle over civil liberties has erupted again, after a draft law written under the government of...
MPs Declare Recent Government Decisions “Unfair” and Against the Interests of the Public Sector, as Companies within the Industrial Sector Assert that 250 000 Workers may Risk Pay Cuts!
Al-Mada Press/ Baghdad On Thursday, company representatives from the Ministry of Industry and Minerals demanded that the parliament put pressure...
For Yazidi Women, Escaping ISIS Doesn’t Mean The Ordeal Is Over!
NPR – December 10, 2014 Barzan is a young Yazidi man, with sad blue eyes. His mother, five of his sisters...
Stop Ilisu – Stop Destruction and Instability!
Initiative to Keep Hasankeyf Alive Batman/Turkey Press Release – 05.12.2014 Ilisu Dam’s construction may be continued after a 4 month halt! ...
Labor legislation in Iraq: between reality and the future
Wesam Chaseb Ouda Iraq’s program Manager – Baghdad, International Solidarity Center This document prepared for the ICSSI conference, Oslo , Norway –...
Between the Laws Inherited from the Era of Dictatorship and Legislation Seeking to Restrict Freedom of Expression and the Press in Iraq, The Reality is Not Consistent with the Principles of Democracy
Yasser Salem Executive Director of Press Freedom Advocacy Association in Iraq Paper prepared for the ICSSI Conference in Oslo, October...