Thematic Issues


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
Is Another Iraq Possible?

Is Another Iraq Possible?

As I sit in front of my computer, reading the news about the escalation in violence in Iraq, my heart...

  • Democracy
Rivers Unite, Dams Divide: A Struggle to Protect Rivers and Preserve Life

Rivers Unite, Dams Divide: A Struggle to Protect Rivers and Preserve Life

“The struggle of the Mapuche, Hasankeyf and the Indigenous people of the Amazon, is a struggle to preserve the planet”...

  • Environment
Demonstration of employees in the Ministry of Commerce

Demonstration of employees in the Ministry of Commerce

28/05/2013 Dozens of male and female workers of the Ministry of Commerce’s companies and sections organized an open sit-in at...

  • Social and Economic Rights