Hundreds of furious protestors are overrunning the Iraqi Cities!
Spontaneous demonstrations have been going on since yesterday evening, 20 July, in the Iraqi cities of Baghdad, Kirkuk, Basra, Karbala...
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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...
October Protestors Displaced to Erbil: Some People Sold Us to the Parties in the Power
Since October 1, 2019, nearly two years ago, young Iraqis have taken to the streets and asked the government to...
Iraq: GCHR’s 17th Periodic Report on Human Rights Violations in Iraq
GCHR Introduction This is the seventeenth report of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) which covers the reality of...
Iraq: GCHR Mourns the Loss of Prominent Human Rights Defender Fatima Al-Bahadli’s Son Ali, Murdered in Basra
GCHR The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) expresses its deep sorrow about the murder of Ali Karim, the 26-year-old son...
Al-Wazani’s Killing Sparks a New Wave of Protests to Demand Justice for the Victims of the October Uprising
Iraqi activist Ihab Al-Wazni on Sunday, 9th of May, became a new victim in a wave of targeted killings in...
Iraq Finally Makes Arrests Over Killing of Anti-Government Protestors
al-monitor Iraqi security forces arrested four suspects for allegedly killing Iraqi protesters and activists. Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi announced...
Iraq: Water Crisis in Basra Decades of Mismanagement, Pollution, Corruption Print
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH (Baghdad) – Iraqi authorities have failed to ensure for almost 30 years that Basra residents have sufficient safe drinking...
Basra: Between demonstrating as a constitutional right, and entering the tunnel of procrastination
The protest movement and demonstrations in Basra continued for years because of poor services and instability in the city. But...
Fact-Finding team report on the Humanitarian Situation in Basra
عربي | Arabic On 17 October 2018, a civil society Fact-Finding Team revealed serious human rights violations against citizens in...
Water Uprising in Basra: 15 Protestors Lose Their Lives and Political Alliances Are Redrawn
Arabic | عربي Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative 11 September, 2018 “Try to drink tap water from anywhere here if...
‘Iraq is Dying’: Oil Flows Freely but Corruption Fuels Growing Anger
Arabic | عربي The Guardian by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad in Bani-Mansour The land of the Bani-Mansour clan north-east of Basra is flat and...