Female Parliamentarians argue for active participation of women in the new government!
Qurtas News / Baghdad A group of female parliamentarians argued on Thursday, the political blocs’ leaders to grant women the...
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Underage and Trapped: Female Iraqi Factory Workers Need Help
Al- Monitor: Wassim Bassem BABIL, Iraq — Shayma Hassan, 16, walks 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) each day to the brick factory...
ETHNIC CLEANSING ON HISTORIC SCALE: THE ISLAMIC STATE’S SYSTEMATIC TARGETING OF MINORITIES IN NORTHERN IRAQ
Amnesty International : September 2014 The group that calls itself the Islamic State (IS) has carried out ethnic cleansing on...
Water Scarcity in Iraq: Residents of Al-Majar Al-Kabeer: “Our river is becoming a swamp of algae and waste”
Al-Madaa Press / Maysan Translated by ICSSI ِAugust 27 , 2014 Residents of the Al-Majar Al-Kabeer district in the...
Veils, Gloves And Violence: New Extremist Rules See Women Disappear From Mosul’s Streets
Niqash : Nawzat Shamdeen | Mosul Mosul was always a conservative city when it came to women’s rights. However the...
Iraqi Turkmen in Danger, Rescue Amerli!
August 26, 2014 More than 16.000 civilians are trapped in the area of Amerli, in Tuz Khormatoo District of Salahaddin...
Fleeing Yezidi Iraqis Seek Safety in Turkey!
SILOPI, TURKEY – IRIN As soon as he crossed the border into southeastern Turkey, Khudeda Khalaf downed a bottle of...
Ministries Without Quotas’: New Campaign Against Sectarian Politics
Niqash : Mustafa Habib As levels of violence increase in Iraq’s north, a new campaign in Baghdad provides some positive...
Assassination of a Civil Activist in Muqdadiyah
Farwell Saad Abdul Wahab Ahmed. Iraqi Al-Amal Association mourns with deep sorrow and anguish, the assassination of one of its...
Take slavery in Iraq to the International Criminal Court
ICSSI supports the call of the international social movement “WALK FREE” urging the United Nations Security Council to put the...
Help the Displaced Yazidi People from Sinjar!
Civil Society Organizations Call to the International Community By Wadi, CPT and Alind – wadi-online Representatives of three human rights non-governmental...
WLP: ISIS Targeting Women, International Action Needed Now
By Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP) for Rights, Development and Peace, August 7, 2014. The news coming from our partners on...