U.S. Labor Against the War: Statement on 11th Anniversary of the Start of the Iraq War
With heavy heart and renewed determination, the officers, staff, and affiliates of U.S. Labor Against the War mark the eleventh anniversary of the outbreak of the illegal U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. For many Americans, the withdrawal of U.S. combat forces from Iraq at the end of 2011 marked the end of U.S. […]
The Water Of The Tigris River: An Opportunity For Trans-Boundary Cooperation
By Toon Bijnens, ICSSI and Save the Tigris Campaign How can Iraq safeguard its water provision from the Tigris river? This was one of the central questions at last week’s Sulaimani Forum at the American University of Iraq in Sulaymaniah, as four water experts gathered for a panel discussion on the issue. With the opening […]
Second Festival Of Iraqi Press: Journalists In Iraq Need Protection !
By Afrah Shawqi : Middle East newspaper Baghdad Iraqi journalists stressed on the importance of respecting their freedom to express their opinions and to exercise their freedoms of press, as approved by the Iraqi Constitution. Iraqi government have to provide adequate protection for media workers, and stop interfering the work of independent media and . […]
Iraqi women protest against proposed Islamic law in Iraq!
8 March, 2014 Baghdad – Reuters About two dozen Iraqi women demonstrated on Saturday in Baghdad against a draft law approved by the Iraqi cabinet that would permit the marriage of nine-year-old girls and automatically give child custody to fathers. The group’s protest was on International Women’s Day and a week after the cabinet voted […]
British report: The cost of Anbar war is 7 million $ a day, Iraq will be bankrupt in 2017!
Thursday, 27 February 2014 AlShafaq News A report issued by the International Center for Development Studies (ICDS) , based in London warned on Thursday from the bankruptcy of Iraq in three years because of the budget deficit, which now threatens the Iraqi oil sector clearly , as the report indicated that the military operations in […]
Iraqi Women Among The Most Vulnerable To Sexual Harassment
Iraq is one of the worst countries in the world for women! Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative (ICSSI), March 2014 Episodes of sexual harassment of women and girls in Iraq are increasing at a preoccupying rate, making Iraq one of the worst places in the world for women. An accurate diagnosis of the problem is […]
The War In Anbar, Humanitarian Disaster And Lies!
Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative (ICSSI) 4th of March 2014 It was very hard to imagine that it would turn so bad. Iraqis are at war again without any legal avail and war slogans are louder than the voice of reason and wisdom. Iraqi people wished for an end of the war era, after suffering […]
Campaign to reject the sectarian Jaafari law of personal status in Iraq!
Date: 02/03/2014 Since more than ten years, the sectarianism Islamic political parties in Iraq are seeking to impose their control and authority and laws on Iraqis, they practiced their corruption in every field of people’s life. Since the first day of their arrival to the chairs of power with the support of the U.S. occupation […]
The Basra water crisis and increasing salinity of the Shatt al-Arab
By Toon Bijnens Basra, Iraq Tags: Save the Tigris and Marshes Campaign, Ilisu dam , The Save the Tigris Campaign participated on 15 and 16 February in an international workshop in Basra, entitled “Basra Water Crisis, Shatt al-Arab Increasing Salinity and Measures to Control”, organized by the University of Basra in collaboration with the Province […]
Updated profiles for 18 governorate of Iraq
The Joint Analysis Unit (JAU), prepared 18 governorate profiles for Iraq presenting key socio-economic indicators including education, poverty, food security, labour force, access to essential services, security, displacement, and the MDGs. The Joint Analysis Unit (JAU), is a UN unit acts as the coordinating body for information analysis between the United Nations Country Team (UNCT) […]
Preserving the Abu Ghraib Culture: The Harrowing Abuse of Iraqi Women
By Ramzy Baroud Foreign Policy Journal “When they first put the electricity on me, I gasped; my body went rigid and the bag came off my head,” Israa Salah, a detained Iraqi woman told Human Rights Watch (HRW) in her heartrending testimony. Israa (not her real name) was arrested by US and Iraqi forces in […]
02/10/2014 Al-Mada Press/ Baghdad Dozens of representatives of the trade unions with health professions, threatened on Monday with”a flood and massive demonstrations” in case the legislative and executive authorities rejected to achieve their demands, and they gave the Ministry of Health and Parliament notice until the “end of the month” for the implementation of their […]