Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative

The Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative (ICSSI) is dedicated to bringing together Iraqi and international civil societies through concrete actions to build together another Iraq, with peace and Human Rights for all.

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Metro Center: 193 violations against Kurdish journalists in 2013

Hawar Abdulrazaq, BasNews (Sulaimaniyah): Jan 15, 2014 The Kurdish Journalist Rights Organization (Metro Center) has released its annual report for 2013 on violations against journalists in the Kurdistan region over the last 12 months. Metro reported that during the past year there have 193 registered cases of violations against 167 journalists across the Kurdistan region. […]

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Iraqi Social Forum: The military solution is not the only option. The time has come for social, economical, and political solutions to defeat the terrorist obscurantist ideology!

As we obsessively keep our eyes on the security operations orientation taking place in Al-Anbar province, where the security forces since three weeks is trying through to impose its control over the province after the domination of the terrorist forces on a number of its cities. While we strongly condemn the violence exercised by those […]

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Another Year Fighting Against Ilisu Dam:

 A Year Review of the Save the Tigris Campaign Johanna Rivera 16 0f January 2014 For the last year, the Save the Tigris Campaign has been actively working to raise awareness about the negative impacts of Ilisu dam, one of 22 dams built in Turkey on the Tigris River. The campaign gathers organizations form Turkey, Iraq […]

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Hussein Al-Sadr: ِAl-Anbar problem can’t be resolved by force and complexity because of the politicians’ greediness!

13/01/2014 Al-Mada Press/ Baghdad The Shiite religious man Hussein Ismail Al-Sadr said on Monday that Al-Anbar has become the issue of the “The Free Iraqis” as a whole, and he pointed out that “the complexity of this issue is a result of the politicians’ greediness” and that military force alone is not sufficient to deal […]

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Journalists in Iraq: their freedoms obliterated by laws and policies while their lives are continually threatened!

During 2013 members of the press who were killed or injured in Iraq climbed to alarming numbers, while freedom of the press was smashed between the hammer of armed militias and the anvil of the government. The Press Freedom Advocacy Association released its annual report for 2013, highlighting the serious deterioration in the working conditions […]

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Resolution of Anbar crisis requires security, political coordination

Author Mushreq AbbasPosted January 3, 2014 Translator(s)Kamal Fayad Al-Monitor  When the Iraqi army marched on the Anbar desert on Dec. 22 to wage war against al-Qaeda fighters along the Iraqi-Syrian border, the operation was viewed as an opportunity to restore the hope of achieving internal consensus around the necessity to fight extremism. Instead, however, it […]

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Investigate Violence at Protest Camp

Human Rights Watch , JANUARY 4, 2014 Fighting Erupts in Anbar Province After Security Forces, Protesters Clash “The facts of the Ramadi incident are unclear, but government statements before the clashes and the deployment of the army seemed intended more to provoke violence than prevent it. Seventeen people died at Ramadi and the Iraqi authorities need […]

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Rape and torture prevalent in iraqi prison system

niqash | Ahmed Muayed | Baghdad | 19.12.2013 The practice of torture to exact confessions from prisoners remains widespread in Iraq’s justice system. And investigators have apparently been able to practice it with impunity. But now even MPs from the ruling coalition are saying something needs to be done about it.   The 34-year-old began to […]

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Nineveh’s lawyers boycotting the court of investigating terrorism

Shafaq News / the Bar branch of Nineveh revealed on Sunday that the lawyers of the province of Nineveh break away the court of inquiry specialized in considering the issues of terrorism. The court was recently formed of judges and investigators from Baghdad and other provinces after the dissolution of the body that was consisting of […]

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Press Freedom Advocacy Association participates in drafting the recommendations of freedom of expression in the Middle East and North Africa region

14 Dec. 2013 The Press Freedom Advocacy Association participated in the conference of the Middle East and North Africa region and the Group of Eight (Bmena), which was held in the capital of Jordan, Amman last week. During the past few days, the conference has discussed many themes related to the freedom of expression, such […]

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Anti-corruption Kurdish journalist Kawa Garmyani murdered and protests in Sulaymaniyah to protect Journalists!

December 6, 2013 Source: KT News South Kurdistan journalist Kawa Garmyani was shot dead outside his house in Kalar last night.  Three days ago Kawa had announced on his Facebook page that he had documents relating to a corruption case that he was planning to write about in ‘Rayal’ magazine. Kawa was the editor of ‘Rayal’ […]

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Journalists in Mosul – Killings, threats and disability of official organs

Iraq – 7/12/2013 The latest events connected with journalistic work in Ninewa province for the last three months of this year proved that it is the most dangerous town on the lives of journalists and the greatest challenge among Iraqi provinces. The office of the Iraqi Journalists’ Rights Association Defence  pointed out the violent actions […]

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