Don’t Legalize Marriage for 9-Year-Olds
by HRW :Draft Law Huge Step Back for Women, Girls (Baghdad) – Iraq’s Council of Ministers should withdraw a new...
Thematic Issues
African Iraqis: Seeking for Political Representation
Niqash – Basra Over a million African Iraqis live in the country. Yet unlike other ethnic groups, they are not recognised...
The Iraqi Presidential Guards Killed A Journalist In Baghdad
Security guards or militia? A statement by the Press Freedom Advocacy Association Baghdad, 22th of March, 2014 The Press Freedom...
A group of Basra activists celebrates the World Water Day at the Corniche of Shatt Al-Arab
Demands to establish a cell of crisis to face “Ilisu” dam Basra – March 2014 A group of civil activists...
Iraqi Justice Minister Presses Shiite Personal Status Law!
Source: Al-monitor With great persistence, Iraqi Justice Minister Hassan al-Shammari has kept pushing the controversial Jaafari personal status law to the forefront. He succeeded in passing...
U.S. Labor Against the War: Statement on 11th Anniversary of the Start of the Iraq War
With heavy heart and renewed determination, the officers, staff, and affiliates of U.S. Labor Against the War mark the...
The Water Of The Tigris River: An Opportunity For Trans-Boundary Cooperation
By Toon Bijnens, ICSSI and Save the Tigris Campaign How can Iraq safeguard its water provision from the Tigris river?...
Second Festival Of Iraqi Press: Journalists In Iraq Need Protection !
By Afrah Shawqi : Middle East newspaper Baghdad Iraqi journalists stressed on the importance of respecting their freedom to express...
Iraqi women protest against proposed Islamic law in Iraq!
8 March, 2014 Baghdad – Reuters About two dozen Iraqi women demonstrated on Saturday in Baghdad against a draft law...
Iraqi Women Among The Most Vulnerable To Sexual Harassment
Iraq is one of the worst countries in the world for women! Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative (ICSSI), March 2014...
Campaign to reject the sectarian Jaafari law of personal status in Iraq!
Date: 02/03/2014 Since more than ten years, the sectarianism Islamic political parties in Iraq are seeking to impose their control...
The Basra water crisis and increasing salinity of the Shatt al-Arab
By Toon Bijnens Basra, Iraq Tags: Save the Tigris and Marshes Campaign, Ilisu dam , The Save the Tigris Campaign...