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Mounting Toll in Iraq Protests as Internet Cut Again

Mounting Toll in Iraq Protests as Internet Cut Again

Baghdad (AFP) | November 5, 2019 A mounting death toll in Baghdad and across southern Iraq coupled with reimposed internet...

  • Freedoms
Hear Us Now: Stop the Bombing!

Hear Us Now: Stop the Bombing!

The following statement on Turkish and Iranian cross-border bombings in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq has been drafted by Christian...

  • End Cross-Border Bombings
Victims of Turkish, Iranian Cross-Border Bombings Speak Out in Soran

Victims of Turkish, Iranian Cross-Border Bombings Speak Out in Soran

NRT English, 2 September 2019 SULAIMANI — Victims of Turkish and Iranian cross-border bombings on villages in the Kurdistan Region...

  • End Cross-Border Bombings
UNESCO Should Address the Impacts of Upstream Dam Construction on the Ahwar of Iraq and Support Transboundary Water-Sharing Agreements

UNESCO Should Address the Impacts of Upstream Dam Construction on the Ahwar of Iraq and Support Transboundary Water-Sharing Agreements

Press Statement by Save the Tigris Campaign The following resolution submitted by Save the Tigris Campaign was adopted by the...

  • Environment
Peaceful Coexistence in The First Kokamila Peace Festival in The City of Karamlis

Peaceful Coexistence in The First Kokamila Peace Festival in The City of Karamlis

Under the slogan “You are the branches of the vine”, Bridge To.. (UPP) organized its project to build bridges between...

  • Minorities and IDPs
10 Years of Solidarity in Action!

10 Years of Solidarity in Action!

Arabic | عربي Acting together, we grow stronger and do more! Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative Conference for Strategic Planning...

  • Baghdad Conference 2019
Water Uprising in Basra: 15 Protestors Lose Their Lives and Political Alliances Are Redrawn

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...

  • Nonviolence
‘Iraq is Dying’: Oil Flows Freely but Corruption Fuels Growing Anger

‘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...

  • Environment
Peaceful Demonstrator Killed in Front of West Qurna Oil Field — ICSSI Issues an Urgent Call for the Iraqi Government to Open an Investigation

Peaceful Demonstrator Killed in Front of West Qurna Oil Field — ICSSI Issues an Urgent Call for the Iraqi Government to Open an Investigation

Arabic | عربي   The Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative (ICSSI) 16 August 2018 Iraqi security forces violently broke a...

  • Nonviolence
Iraq Election Commission Ignored Warnings Over Voting Machines

Iraq Election Commission Ignored Warnings Over Voting Machines

Writtin by Ahmed Rasheed, Raya Jalabi, Ahmed Aboulenein BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq’s election commission ignored an anti-corruption body’s warnings about...

  • Civil Society News
Protests in Southern Iraq Intensify as Demonstrators Stage 2 Sit-Ins on Site at Oil Fields Run by Exxon Mobil and Eni — Armored Vehicles Deployed in Response

Protests in Southern Iraq Intensify as Demonstrators Stage 2 Sit-Ins on Site at Oil Fields Run by Exxon Mobil and Eni — Armored Vehicles Deployed in Response

Arabic | عربي   Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative 30 July 2018   Hundreds of young people in Basra set up...

  • Nonviolence
Campaign Brainstorming with the Youth Volunteers of the Mashufna Center

Campaign Brainstorming with the Youth Volunteers of the Mashufna Center

To support the presence of the Mashufna Cultural Center in the civil society of Nasiriya, the Center held a training...

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