Thematic Issues


Call For Urgent Action To Release Prisoner Of Conscience Ahmed al-Qubbanji

Call For Urgent Action To Release Prisoner Of Conscience Ahmed al-Qubbanji

UPDATE: 031013 The Iraqi thinker Ahmed al-Qubbanji has been released today. He will hold a press release in Baghdad today! Source-...

  • Freedom of Expression
Release The Iraqi intellectual and thinker, Ahmed  Al-Qubbanji- arrested by Iranian authorities

Release The Iraqi intellectual and thinker, Ahmed Al-Qubbanji- arrested by Iranian authorities

Appeal for Urgent Action To Release Iraqi intellectual and thinker, Mr. Ahmed Al-Qubbanji, arrested by Iranian authorities   We are...

  • Human Rights
Demanding To Reform The Journalists Rights Law

Demanding To Reform The Journalists Rights Law

Sulaymaniyah / 02.18.2013 The Press Freedom Advocacy Association In Iraq held a seminar on the proposal for a “First Amendment...

  • Civil Society News
Press Release: International Coalition and the Drafting Process of the International Code of Conduct (ICoC)

Press Release: International Coalition and the Drafting Process of the International Code of Conduct (ICoC)

The Drafting process of the International Code of Conduct From February 19th to 22nd 2013, National Governments, Private Military &...

  • Press Release
Civil Society Statement on the Articles of Association of the International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers

Civil Society Statement on the Articles of Association of the International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers

Civil Society Statement on the Articles of Association of the International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers From...

  • Civil Society News
Baghdadi Organizations Visit the Sit-in in Ramadi and Support Their Demands

Baghdadi Organizations Visit the Sit-in in Ramadi and Support Their Demands

Solidarity with the protests in Anbar, calls for international organizations to visit the protestors and the demonstrations are prevented from...

  • Nonviolence
A Victory for Freedom of Expression in Iraq: Iraqi Council of Representatives Repeal Cyber Law

A Victory for Freedom of Expression in Iraq: Iraqi Council of Representatives Repeal Cyber Law

ICSSI congratulates Iraqi civil society for its victory on the repeal of the Draft Informatics Crimes Law. We recognize the...

  • Freedom of Expression
Symbol of Iraqi Resistance: Fallujah Revisited

Symbol of Iraqi Resistance: Fallujah Revisited

by HAIFA ZANGANA Counter Punch It took the British government five weeks to take note of the mass demonstrations in...

  • Nonviolence
Iraq: A Broken Justice System

Iraq: A Broken Justice System

Iraq: A Broken Justice System Ten Years after Invasion, Opponents Punished, Trial Rights Ignored JANUARY 31, 2013 Human Rights Watch...

  • Freedom of Expression
Immediate Release of Nadir Dendoune, Respect Freedom of Press and More Protection for Journalists Working in Iraq.

Immediate Release of Nadir Dendoune, Respect Freedom of Press and More Protection for Journalists Working in Iraq.

UPDATE 030313: According to Reporters without Borders website, Dendoune, a visiting journalist with French, Australian and Algerian nationality who wasreleased on bail...

  • Freedom of Expression
Controversial Ilisu Dam on Hasankeyf Halted by Turkish Court

Controversial Ilisu Dam on Hasankeyf Halted by Turkish Court

Save the Tigris campaign welcomes the ruling of the Turkish State Council against the construction of the Ilisu dam project....

  • Environment
ICSSI Supports Popular Protests in Iraq  Demanding an End to Corruption, Sectarian Conflict and Injustice

ICSSI Supports Popular Protests in Iraq Demanding an End to Corruption, Sectarian Conflict and Injustice

ICSSI Statement of the protests follows. Read also Iraqi voices on the protests: Open letter by 16 Iraqi NGOs to...

  • Nonviolence