Despite Facing Difficulties and Serious Risk, Iraqi Women Journalists Achieve Victories
The Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative (ICSSI) June, 2015 While the international community continues to see Iraqi women merely...
Women Rights
Significant Growth in the Phenomenon of Domestic Violence in Iraq: 90% of Victims are Women!
Shafaq News Female judges confirmed significant growth in the phenomenon of domestic violence in the country, and pointed out that...
Probing Daesh’s sex Atrocities with the United Nations
Middle East Eye speaks with Zainab Bangura, the UN envoy on sexual violence in conflict, about the latest Daash crimes...
Youth With #Shahrazad
Baghdad youth Camp implemented in March 2015 On the morning of Thursday, 6 March 2015, the Iraqi Social Forum opened...
Standing With Iraqi Women and Activists at the World Social Forum
By Suzanne DeRouen, ICSSI Volunteer from the USA (April 2015). On March 28, the World Social Forum (WSF) in Tunis,...
Shahrazad: mobilizing civil society and public opinion against underage marriage and sexual harassment in Iraq
Emtinan Hikmat_ Almasala Organization Report on workshop, Erbil, 8-10/ March/ 2015 Based on the firm conviction that another Iraq is...
College of Education for Girls in Baghdad Protest against the Transfer of 19 Qualified Male Professors, while Security Forces Prevent Media Coverage
Al-Mada Press/ Baghdad On Sunday, dozens of students in the College of Education for Girls in the capital Baghdad protested...
Iraq … A Country in the Throes of Transformation and State Building
Oday Hatem Nearly 12 years after the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime, which was supposed to bring about a transition...
Women Are the Best Weapon in the War Against Terrorism
Foreign policy Fifteen years ago, the U.N. enshrined the idea that equality between men and women is inextricably linked with...
Three Yazidis Women Escape from Daesh, and Tell Their Stories to Rudaw
Ahmed Mahmood – Rudaw Mosul Three Yazidi sisters managed to escape from the grip “Daesh” in Mosul, and after a...
European Union: Expansion of Violence against Women in Iraq, Sexual Harassment, Exploitation and Women Trafficking!
Shafaq News The European Union congratulated Iraq on Thursday on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the adoption of...
Will the “Shahrazad” Campaign Succeed in Mobilizing Public Opinion Against Underage Marriage and Sexual Harassment in Iraq?
The Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative February 2015 Efforts to build the “Shahrazad Campaign” began in April 2014, but...