GCHR Activities During UN Human Rights Council’s 48th Session
GCHR The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) was involved in various advocacy activities during the 48th session of the United...
Thematic Issues
Five Duhok detainees to be released: lawyer
Rudaw ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Five of the detainees from Duhok whose cases prompted an international outcry from media watchdogs,...
Realities of Climate-Induced Migration in Iraq’s Southern Cities
IOM Environmental degradation over the last 10 years has severely damaged Iraq’s agricultural sector. Worsening water scarcity and quality have...
GCHR’s 19th Periodic Report on Human Rights Violations in Iraq
GCHR This is the nineteenth periodic report issued by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) since January 2020, documenting...
GCHR’s Periodic Report on Human Rights Violations in the Kurdistan Region
GCHR Authorities in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq continue to violate freedom of expression and freedom of peaceful assembly by...
Iraqi Election 2021: EU Election Observation Mission Releases its ‘Preliminary’ Results
K24 ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Following its monitoring of the early Iraqi parliamentary elections, the European Election Observation Mission (EUOM)...
Turnout in Iraq’s Election Reached 41% – Electoral Commission
Reuters BAGHDAD, Oct 10 (Reuters) – Initial turnout in Iraq’s parliamentary election on Sunday was 41%, the electoral commission said,...
Security Forces, IDPs Cast Votes Early in Iraq’s Parliamentary Elections
al-monitor Early voting has opened in Iraq’s parliamentary elections. Early voting is underway for Iraq’s parliamentary elections, with soldiers, prisoners,...
October 10th Early Elections Perspectives From Iraqi Civil Society
Abstract To understand the roots and dynamics of the early elections of 10th October 2021 in Iraq, it is necessary...
International Water Forum Discusses the Water Crisis in North-East Syria
The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria held a water conference from 27-28 September 2021 in Hasakeh, North-East Syria,...
Iraqi Kurdish Court Extends Journalist Omed Baroshky’s Prison Sentence by 1 Year
CPJ New York, September 23, 2021 — In response to an Erbil court’s ruling today to extend the imprisonment of...
As Its Rivers Shrink, Iraq Thirsts For Regional Cooperation
HALABJA, Iraq — “Where we are standing right now, there should be a river,” says Nabil Musa, gesturing at a...