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...
the Iraqi government
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...
Iraq: Inadequate Plans for Camp Closures
Human Rights Watch (Beirut) – Recent camp closures have stripped thousands of displaced people of essential services during the Covid-19 pandemic, with...
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...
Impunity for Killings Will Cast a Pall Over Iraq’s Elections
HRW When protests erupted in Baghdad and other parts of central and southern Iraq in October 2019, tens of thousands...
Special Report: The Rights of Workers and Employees in Iraq
On the Occasion of May 1st, 2021, International Labor Day Introduction: Iraq faces major economic challenges as a result...
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...
Does the threat of militias allied with Iran to Gulf countries affect the efforts of the Kazemi’s government?
Days after the announcement of Iraqi armed platform statement by a militia calling themselves “True Promise of Brigades” related to...
Parliament Moves to Pass a “Cybercrimes Law” Protesters March Denouncing the “Law to Silence Expression”
After failing to pass a cybercrimes law during the governments of al-Maliki, al-Abadi and Abdul-Mahdi, the Iraqi parliament is trying...
‘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...