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Your “Charges” Are Their Rights!   Drop the Charges!

Your “Charges” Are Their Rights! Drop the Charges!

Update June 18th: The hearing was again postponed for July 1st, 2013 because the judge had to travel to Baghdad....

  • Human Rights
Resistance Against Destruction of Taksim Gezi Park

Resistance Against Destruction of Taksim Gezi Park

——————————————————————————————————————————————————————-This is a call for INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY International Human Rights Organizations and Dear Friends, Comrades, Press Members from all over...

  • Civil Society News
Gezi Park Voices: “We Exist, We are Here and We Have Demands”.

Gezi Park Voices: “We Exist, We are Here and We Have Demands”.

This is the latest press statement of the Taksim Solidarity – http://taksimdayanisma.org/ *** To the Government and the people of the...

  • Civil Society News
Is Another Iraq Possible?

Is Another Iraq Possible?

As I sit in front of my computer, reading the news about the escalation in violence in Iraq, my heart...

  • Democracy
Rivers Unite, Dams Divide: A Struggle to Protect Rivers and Preserve Life

Rivers Unite, Dams Divide: A Struggle to Protect Rivers and Preserve Life

“The struggle of the Mapuche, Hasankeyf and the Indigenous people of the Amazon, is a struggle to preserve the planet”...

  • Environment
Demonstration of employees in the Ministry of Commerce

Demonstration of employees in the Ministry of Commerce

28/05/2013 Dozens of male and female workers of the Ministry of Commerce’s companies and sections organized an open sit-in at...

  • Social and Economic Rights
International Activists Block Ilısu Dam Construction Site

International Activists Block Ilısu Dam Construction Site

Press Release: International Activists Block Ilisu Dam Construction Site Source: Damocracy Representative from the Save the Tigris Campaign  participated in...

  • Anti-Dams Actions
The 2013 World Social Forum, a big  success in the path of the WSF

The 2013 World Social Forum, a big success in the path of the WSF

Ahmad Jaradat Alternative Information Center- Palestine The 2013 edition of the World Social Forum took place between the 26 to...

  • Civil Society News
Iraqi Elections: the silent majority and a new wave of violence

Iraqi Elections: the silent majority and a new wave of violence

The Iraq Civil Society Solidarity Initiative (ICSSI) Written by: Ismaeel Dawood and Terry Kay Rockefeller , May 2013 Boycotts and...

  • Iraqi Voices
There is no “crime”, Drop the Charges!

There is no “crime”, Drop the Charges!

ICSSI – May the 3rd  2013 The legal case against the trade unionist and human rights defender, Hassan Juma Awad...

  • Social and Economic Rights
In Iraqi Kurdistan Those Who Murder Women Go Free

In Iraqi Kurdistan Those Who Murder Women Go Free

“There is definitely a light at the end of the tunnel. And we are here for the long haul.” –...

  • Human Rights
Meet Me in Hasankeyf: Culture, People and Politics in Hasankeyf

Meet Me in Hasankeyf: Culture, People and Politics in Hasankeyf

After our session on global solidarity against water grabs, I headed to south east Turkey, to the region where the...

  • Environment