Thematic Issues


No for “D’Hondt” method, the vote’s robber!

No for “D’Hondt” method, the vote’s robber!

Sunday, 21/07/2013 Argument is continuing over the law of the next House of Representatives’ elections, where only a few months...

  • Human Rights
Baghdad hosts the first Iraqi Social Forum and does not surrender to violence

Baghdad hosts the first Iraqi Social Forum and does not surrender to violence

ICSSI, 1st of August 2013 When they started preparations, local organizers of the Iraqi Social forum (ISF) were hoping to...

  • Iraqi Social Forum (ISF)
WHEN SPORT SUPPORTS THE FIGHT FOR PEACE AND HUMAN RIGHTS

WHEN SPORT SUPPORTS THE FIGHT FOR PEACE AND HUMAN RIGHTS

For years now, any news about Iraq spread on media have been only talking about bombs, terrorism and war. In...

  • Iraqi Social Forum (ISF)
The World Heritage Committee will be meeting in Cambodia, Iraq is a member, but the Iraqi marshes are not in the agenda!

The World Heritage Committee will be meeting in Cambodia, Iraq is a member, but the Iraqi marshes are not in the agenda!

Press Release:  Open Letter on the submission of the Central Marshes to the World Heritage Committee To:  The Iraqi President...

  • Environment
Federation of Oil Unions in Iraq : statement on the occasion of dropping charges against the head of our union

Federation of Oil Unions in Iraq : statement on the occasion of dropping charges against the head of our union

Federation of Oil Unions in Iraq No. 260 Date: 01/07/2013 To / All Iraqi and international trade unions, federations and...

  • Social and Economic Rights
Journalists in Baghdad put the final touches on a proposal “the first amendment to the law of journalist’s rights”

Journalists in Baghdad put the final touches on a proposal “the first amendment to the law of journalist’s rights”

Baghdad 6/7/2013 The Press Freedom Advocacy Association held on Saturday a deliberative workshop to put the finishing touches on the...

  • Freedom of Expression
Charges against Iraqi union leader tossed  International solidarity and oil worker unity defeat government repression

Charges against Iraqi union leader tossed International solidarity and oil worker unity defeat government repression

A joint statement by the Iraq Civil Society Solidarity Initiative (ICSSI),  AFL-CIO Solidarity Center and U.S. Labor Against the War...

  • Human Rights
Save the Tigris Campaign holds successful seminars in four South Iraq Provinces

Save the Tigris Campaign holds successful seminars in four South Iraq Provinces

Last week, the Save the Tigris Campaign held seminars in four provinces in South Iraq: Basra, Missan, Dhi Qar and...

  • Civil Society News
Call for support to “The Right to Heal Initiative” to hold the US accountable for the human costs of war

Call for support to “The Right to Heal Initiative” to hold the US accountable for the human costs of war

A campaign that includes U.S. and Iraqi groups request to take their case to the OAS demanding accountability and reparations...

  • Human Rights
Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia and the Similar Turkish Case

Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia and the Similar Turkish Case

By: Ahmed az-Zoba`i Translation from Arabic by: Safaa Sheikh Hammed Original Arabic: http://www.iraqnewspaper.net/news.php?action=view&id=22010 “Egypt is the gift of the Nile,” says Herodotus. Egypt could have been part of the...

  • Anti-Dams Actions
Your “Charges” Are Their Rights!   Drop the Charges!

Your “Charges” Are Their Rights! Drop the Charges!

Update June 18th: The hearing was again postponed for July 1st, 2013 because the judge had to travel to Baghdad....

  • Human Rights
Gezi Park Voices: “We Exist, We are Here and We Have Demands”.

Gezi Park Voices: “We Exist, We are Here and We Have Demands”.

This is the latest press statement of the Taksim Solidarity – http://taksimdayanisma.org/ *** To the Government and the people of the...

  • Civil Society News