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Youth of Iraq: Our personal freedoms are not guaranteed and government authorities are responsible for nearly half of the violations!

Youth of Iraq: Our personal freedoms are not guaranteed and government authorities are responsible for nearly half of the violations!

January 2014 – A new report from Almesalla Organization for Human Resource Development concerning the personal freedoms of Iraqi youth...

  • Freedom of Expression
Domestic Violence Law in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

Domestic Violence Law in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

January 22 , 2014 Report on the Implementation of the Domestic Violence Law in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq during...

  • Anti-Domestic Violence
Baghdad summons Turkish diplomat, Maliki warns Ankara over Kurdish oil

Baghdad summons Turkish diplomat, Maliki warns Ankara over Kurdish oil

January/12/2014 BAGHDAD – Agence France-Presse / Reuters Baghdad summoned Turkey’s chargé d’affaires Jan. 12 over moves by Iraq’s Kurdish region...

  • Civil Society News
Where the Tigris Flows: Water Security in Post-War Iraq and Turkey

Where the Tigris Flows: Water Security in Post-War Iraq and Turkey

Jadaliyya by Chris Gratien Media coverage of Iraq in recent years has been dominated by the horrifying images of the American...

  • Environment
Letter from Iraqi Unions to Leaders of Parliament

Letter from Iraqi Unions to Leaders of Parliament

January 15th, 2014   Respectable Mr. Osama Al Nujaify President of Iraqi Parliament   After greetings, The Iraqi Trade Unions...

  • Iraqi Labor Law
Metro Center: 193 violations against Kurdish journalists in 2013

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...

  • Freedom of Expression
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!

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...

  • Iraqi Social Forum (ISF)
Another Year Fighting Against Ilisu Dam:

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...

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

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...

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

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...

  • Freedom of Expression
Resolution of Anbar crisis requires security, political coordination

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....

  • Nonviolence
Investigate Violence at Protest Camp

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...

  • Nonviolence