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Iraqi Women Among The Most Vulnerable To Sexual Harassment

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...

  • Right of Political Participation of Women
Campaign to reject the sectarian Jaafari law of personal status in Iraq!

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...

  • Civil Society News
The Basra water crisis and increasing salinity of the Shatt al-Arab

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...

  • Environment
Preserving the Abu Ghraib Culture: The Harrowing Abuse of Iraqi Women

Preserving the Abu Ghraib Culture: The Harrowing Abuse of Iraqi Women

By Ramzy Baroud Foreign Policy Journal “When they first put the electricity on me, I gasped; my body went rigid...

  • Human Rights
Health professionals give notice to authorities until the end of February to achieve their demands and threatening with “flood ravaging Iraq”!

Health professionals give notice to authorities until the end of February to achieve their demands and threatening with “flood ravaging Iraq”!

02/10/2014 Al-Mada Press/ Baghdad Dozens of representatives of the trade unions with health professions, threatened on Monday with”a flood and...

  • Social and Economic Rights
Overcoming water shortage remains one of Iraq’s major challenges

Overcoming water shortage remains one of Iraq’s major challenges

UNESCO Iraq launches new report to manage drought in Iraq, November 2013 The United Nations’ Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization...

  • Civil Society News
Ghosts of Baghdad

Ghosts of Baghdad

America’s Army of Contractors Hasn’t Gone Anywhere. They Just Work for The Iraqi Government Dan Lamothe: January 23, 2014, ForeignPolicy.com The Pentagon...

  • Private Military Companies
Iraq – Workers Demand Fair Laws Now!

Iraq – Workers Demand Fair Laws Now!

06.02.2014 – IndustriALL Unions in Iraq, with the IndustriALL–affiliated Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions (IFOU) at the forefront; continue to...

  • Social and Economic Rights
Oil unions press for legislation as demands unmet

Oil unions press for legislation as demands unmet

Iraq Oil Report by ALI ABU IRAQ AND BEN LANDO Wednesday, January 29th, 2014 BASRA – Unions representing the oil...

  • Social and Economic Rights
Iraqi Marshes, Second Step Towards The World Heritage!

Iraqi Marshes, Second Step Towards The World Heritage!

February  2014 ,Baghdad, Iraq The international coalition of the “Save the Tigris and the Iraqi Marshes Campaign” welcomes the achievement...

  • Environment
Campaign to Abolish Retirement Pay for Members of Parliament Scores a Major Victory!

Campaign to Abolish Retirement Pay for Members of Parliament Scores a Major Victory!

The Campaign to Abolish Retirement Pay for Members of Parliament Scores a Major Victory and Takes a Step to Form...

  • Civil Society News
Basra invites British back for security role

Basra invites British back for security role

03 Jan 2014 – The Telegraph   Six years after the last British troops left amid a barrage of bombs and...

  • Private Military Companies