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Iraq: GCHR’s 14th Periodic Report on Human Rights Violations During Popular Protests

Iraq: GCHR’s 14th Periodic Report on Human Rights Violations During Popular Protests

GCHR This is the 14th periodic report of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) on human rights violations in Iraq....

  • Freedom of Expression
Iraq Covid Hospital Fire: 82 Dead After ‘Oxygen Tank Explodes’

Iraq Covid Hospital Fire: 82 Dead After ‘Oxygen Tank Explodes’

BBC At least 82 people have been killed in a fire at a hospital treating coronavirus patients in the capital...

  • Civil Society News
Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Flawed Trial of Journalists, Activists

Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Flawed Trial of Journalists, Activists

Human Rights Watch Appeals Court Should Consider Flagrant Irregularities (Beirut) – A court in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq sentenced three journalists...

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Statement: “Protect Iraqi Human Rights Defenders NOW!”

Statement: “Protect Iraqi Human Rights Defenders NOW!”

A joint statement of the ICSSI and the newly launched campaign “Protect Iraqi HRDs NOW!“ on the sentences imposed on...

  • Civil Society News
GCHR Honours Human Rights Defenders in Iraq at its Second Annual Awards Ceremony

GCHR Honours Human Rights Defenders in Iraq at its Second Annual Awards Ceremony

Gulf Center For Human Rights Baghdad – On International Human Rights Day, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) honoured human...

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Iraq: Arbitrary detention of human rights defender Hemin Mamand

Iraq: Arbitrary detention of human rights defender Hemin Mamand

Front line defenders On 24 March 2020, human rights defender Hemin Mamand was arrested by the police of the Kurdistan...

  • Human Rights
Call for the Immediate Release of 2 Activists!

Call for the Immediate Release of 2 Activists!

Baghdad Salman Kairallah Al-Mansoori and Omar Kadhem Al-Amri, two Iraqi activists for human and environmental rights, have disappeared in Baghdad...

  • Human Rights
Iraq: Abductions Linked to Baghdad Protests, 7 Missing, 2 Known Arrested

Iraq: Abductions Linked to Baghdad Protests, 7 Missing, 2 Known Arrested

Human Rights Watch (Beirut) – At least seven people, including a boy of 16, were reported missing since October 7...

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Fact-Finding team report on the Humanitarian Situation in Basra

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...

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Creating a Safe Environment for Iraqi Activists and Human Rights Defenders — an ICSSI Training in Baghdad

Creating a Safe Environment for Iraqi Activists and Human Rights Defenders — an ICSSI Training in Baghdad

Given the growing activities of Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) in influencing reform on human rights issues in Iraq — particularly...

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EU: Boycott the so-called international conference on ‘A Future for Christians in Iraq’

EU: Boycott the so-called international conference on ‘A Future for Christians in Iraq’

change.org   Three years have passed since our Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac people were forcibly driven out of their ancestral lands in the...

  • Minorities and IDPs
The Apple of Halabja .. The Spring that did not bring Nowruz

The Apple of Halabja .. The Spring that did not bring Nowruz

Halabja .. An Iraqi tragedy that calls on our common humanity BAGHDAD, March 2017 Civil society activists from various organizations...

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