Thematic Issues

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) 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...

  • Human Rights
OWFI Statement: On the Occupation of Mosul and the Cities of Western Iraq

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...

  • Iraqi Voices
IRAQ: CHOICES AT THE TOP

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...

  • Civil Society News
Inside Baghdad After Isis Attack: Guns, Rumours and Rising Prices

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...

  • Freedom of Expression
Mosul, Kirkuk ,Salahuddin and Diyala: Protecting Civilians and Providing Relief to Displaced Families Must Come First!

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...

  • Civil Society News
Declaration of the Iraqi Coalition for Freedom of Expression

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...

  • Freedom of Expression
The Realities of Ilisu Dam in Iraqi Kurdistan

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...

  • Environment
All talk, No action: Iraqi Kurdistan’s New Freedom of Information Law Toothless!

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,...

  • Freedom of Expression
Hasankeyf: Open-air Museum or Last Frontier for Diving?

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...

  • Environment
MOUNTING DANGERS FOR JOURNALISTS IN IRAQ

MOUNTING DANGERS FOR JOURNALISTS IN IRAQ

Reporters Without Borders May 2014 Journalists were the victims of obstruction, threats and violence during Iraq’s 30 April parliamentary elections,...

  • Freedom of Expression
Trade Unions in Iraq, Between the Oppression of Government and the Ignorance of Parliament!

Trade Unions in Iraq, Between the Oppression of Government and the Ignorance of Parliament!

On The Occasion of Labor Day: The Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative (ICSSI) May 2014 – Baghdad For more than...

  • Social and Economic Rights
Ja’fari Law Takes the Iraqi Government’s Violation of Women’s Rights to a New Level

Ja’fari Law Takes the Iraqi Government’s Violation of Women’s Rights to a New Level

Marriage at age nine, legalising marital rape – this bill breaches UN conventions and is degrading for Iraqi men and...

  • Right of Political Participation of Women