Press Release: Include Ilisu dam on the Meeting Agenda with Turkish Opposition Leader
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Include Ilisu dam on the Meeting Agenda with Turkish Opposition Leader Suleimaniya, Kurdistan-Iraq-August 20th, 2013 Next week Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu is set to visit Baghdad. As the leader of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), the Turkish main opposition party, Mr. Kılıçdaroğlu is one of the most influential politicians in the Turkish opposition. His […]
Italy – August 10, 2013 The Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative (ICSSI) announces its support and solidarity with the National Campaign to Abolish Monthly Benefits for Former Members of the Council of Representatives, which is being promoted by Iraqi civil society leaders and organizations. The ICSSI supports the Campaign members’ right to protest and their […]
No for “D’Hondt” method, the vote’s robber!
Sunday, 21/07/2013 Argument is continuing over the law of the next House of Representatives’ elections, where only a few months separate us from holding it, the House of Representatives is demanded to resolve the matter through unison with the decision of the Federal Court, to begin to proceed in the actual preparation for it, and […]
Baghdad hosts the first Iraqi Social Forum and does not surrender to violence
ICSSI, 1st of August 2013 When they started preparations, local organizers of the Iraqi Social forum (ISF) were hoping to gather more than five thousand activists, between Iraqis and internationals (read the call for internationals) in the center of Baghdad. Their vision was to bring back, through this event, the image of civic peace and […]
International Call for Participants – Deadline 15th of August
Iraqi Social Forum 2013 – International Call for Participants Another Iraq is Possible! With Peace, Human Rights and Social Justice! Dear Friends We invite you to attend and seek your support for the first Iraqi Social Forum [ISF] to be held on September 26-28, 2013 in Baghdad, Iraq . Active international solidarity is the […]
WHEN SPORT SUPPORTS THE FIGHT FOR PEACE AND HUMAN RIGHTS
For years now, any news about Iraq spread on media have been only talking about bombs, terrorism and war. In one word, about violence. What we don’t have to forget is that Iraq is not only this. There is a civil society that continue to live and fight for a better future. We want to […]
The Iraqi Social Forum youth created hope and revived voluntary work in Baghdad
An activity associated with the Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative (ICSSI) – Iraqi Social Forum news – Baghdad, July 2013 Once again the Iraqi youth wouldn’t slander to depression but join to be part of that candle light which lit hope to resist endless violence and political games. They are the brave soldiers in war whom […]
Press Release: Open Letter on the submission of the Central Marshes to the World Heritage Committee To: The Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, The Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki, and through him to all relevant government representatives and members of the Iraqi Parliament, The Speaker of the Council of Representatives of Iraq Osama Nejaifi, and through […]
July 12, 2013 – The International Solidarity Committee of the World Social Forum is supporting the preparation of the first Iraqi Social Forum, scheduled to take place in Baghdad on 26-28 September 2013. One of the key aims of the ISF (Iraqi Social Forum) is to build peace and justice and overcome all forms of […]
Federation of Oil Unions in Iraq No. 260 Date: 01/07/2013 To / All Iraqi and international trade unions, federations and civil society organizations Subject/ a statement on the occasion of dropping charges against the head of our union, the human rights defender and trade union activist Hassan Juma Awad Basra, 1st of July, 2013 In […]
Baghdad 6/7/2013 The Press Freedom Advocacy Association held on Saturday a deliberative workshop to put the finishing touches on the “first suggestion to amend the law of journalists rights” prepared by the Association. The Workshop was held at the Ambassador Hotel in central Baghdad, attended by a number of journalists and legal experts, as well […]
A joint statement by the Iraq Civil Society Solidarity Initiative (ICSSI), AFL-CIO Solidarity Center and U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW) Months after the Iraq Ministry of Oil lodged a criminal complaint against Hassan Juma’a Awad, President of the Iraq Federation of Oil Unions (IFOU), the charges were finally heard by a Basra court. The […]