DONATE NOW: Water Emergency in Qaraqosh (Bakhdeda) and Karemlesh – 22 June 2014
Appeal by Un ponte per… Update of June 29 – Some 70% of Christian IDPs from Qaraqosh and Karemlesh (Ninewa...
Thematic Issues
Minorities Need Protection in Ninawa Governorate: the Shabak are among the most vulnerable
Statement by the Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative (ICSSI), June 27, 2014 A call for the protection of minorities, and...
Iraq’s Minorities Left between Scorpions and a Hard Place
Letta Tayler Published in: CNN Sunday wasn’t a good day in northern Iraq’s al-Hamdaniyah district. The previous night, Sunni extremist...
The Iraqi Alliance for Education (IAE) Call for the Protection of Displaced Students and Teaching Staff in North and West Iraq
The Iraqi Alliance for Education (IAE) appeals to: Iraqi Government, KRG government, United Nation and the international community, Iraqi and...
OWFI Statement: On the Occupation of Mosul and the Cities of Western Iraq
Statement published on June 23, 2014, by the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq. The Iraqi society is suffering unprecedented...
IRAQ: CHOICES AT THE TOP
BY DEXTER FILKINS The New Yorker president Obama won the White House in part by promising to end the war in...
Inside Baghdad After Isis Attack: Guns, Rumours and Rising Prices
Niqash | Kholoud Ramzi | In Baghdad, embassies are shutting down, the Internet has been turned off, there’s a checkpoint...
Mosul, Kirkuk ,Salahuddin and Diyala: Protecting Civilians and Providing Relief to Displaced Families Must Come First!
With Mosul, areas of Salahuddin and Kirkuk out of Iraqi government control, the situation for civilians there and in Iraq...
Declaration of the Iraqi Coalition for Freedom of Expression
An International Conference on Freedom of Expression in the MENA Region took place in Tunis on 28-30 May 2014, organized...
The Realities of Ilisu Dam in Iraqi Kurdistan
By Toon Bijnens, Save the Tigris Campaign and ICSSI – Sulaymaniya, May 28, 2014 The construction of the Ilisu...
All talk, No action: Iraqi Kurdistan’s New Freedom of Information Law Toothless!
Niqash | Erbil Iraqi Kurdistan has a new freedom of information law. Despite being lauded by all local political parties,...
Hasankeyf: Open-air Museum or Last Frontier for Diving?
By Marcello Canepa, April 2014. English translation by ICSSI editor. Overview If ballots are a mirror of reality, administrative elections...