The Blighted City – The Shocking Decline of Iraq’s Oil Capital
The Economist – Basrah WHEN not organising protests at the gates of Basra’s giant oilfields, jobless graduates spend their days playing...
Nonviolence
News and informations about active nonviolence actions led and organised by Iraqi civil society and popular protests in Iraq
There is No Military Solution to Violent Extremism
As a reaction to the deadly attacks by Daesh in Beirut and Paris, the Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative together...
Extraordinary Success of the Second Session of the Iraqi Social Forum!
Press Statement – Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative (ICSSI) Baghdad – Monday, Oct 5th, 2015 The Iraqi Social Forum (ISF)...
A localised Approach on Consensus-building and Reconciliation in Iraq
The PAX Iraq Alert, a policy brief published by the Dutch peace movement PAX. September 2015 The latest popular protests...
A New Statement Emerges From Iraqi Protestors: We Will Continue Until We Achieve Our Legitimate Demands
It has been six weeks since the peaceful demonstrations in Baghdad and the Iraqi provinces began, and there has yet...
Iraqis protest Corruption, Lack of Services while Politicians Blame Everyone but Themselves!
Al Monitor – Ali Maamouri The July 16 killing of Muntazar al-Hilfi by police in al-Madina, north of Basra, during...
Call for solidarity with Iraqi demonstrations
The Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative, August 28, 2015. Thousands of Iraqi people will take the streets of their cities...
Iraq: Conflict Alert
By International Crisis Group, Baghdad/Brussels, 24 August 2015. A wave of protests has brought Iraq to the edge of yet...
Will Abadi’s Reforms Work?
Mustafa Al-kadhimi – Almonitor The Iraqi parliament voted Aug. 11 to approve Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and parliament Speaker Salim al-Jabouri’s economic,...
Videos on demonstrations in Baghdad
ICSSI – Baghdad, August 14, 2015 Iraqi people are demonstrating this evening against corruption in Baghdad, even if a truck...
Iraqi Social Forum: Victory of anti-corruption protests in Iraq
By the Iraqi Social Forum Secretariat. Baghdad – August 11, 2015. The Iraqi Council of Representatives unanimously voted today on...
Iraqis protest over Baghdad heatwave power cuts
BBC – Middle East Hundreds of Iraqi protesters have taken to the streets of Baghdad to protest against power shortages...