Statement of the Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative (ICSSI) Solidarity with Iraqi union activists For immediate release 15-6-2012 A new wave of arrests, threats and reprimands against unionists is sweeping Iraq. A LabourStart campaign of the International Solidarity Center denounces: “Iraqi government agencies frequently interfere with internal union affairs, punishing union activists by imposing forced […]
Hundreds of journalists and media support the lawsuit against the “journalists’ law”
Hundreds of journalists and press, and activists, Announced their support for the lawsuit to against that called “the law of the rights of journalists,” that provided by the Association for Defending Freedom of the press by the personal names, and the administrative board of it, and recorded in the Federal Court under number 34 / […]
Disrupted lives, the effects of cross-border attacks by turkey and Iran on Kurdish Villages
A report by CPT Christian Peacemaking Teams (CPT) is an international human rights organization, working to reduce violence and build peace in a creative way. Since 2002 they have been working in Iraq, and in 2009 they obtained formal permission to work within Iraqi Kurdistan from the Ministry of planning of the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG). They have organized […]
The Tigris Declaration To Save Hasankeyf and Mesopotamian Marshes We are the people of Mesopotamia, one of the most remarkable areas of the world, known as the cradle of civilization. We are the people of Hasankeyf in Turkey and of the Marshes in Iraq. We are connected and combined by the Tigris river. The Tigris […]
Ongoing mobilization to save the Iraqi Marshes and oppose the Ilisu dam project on the Tigris river
The international campaign against the Ilisu dam project on the Tigris river has reached a new threshold: nearly 25 000 have signed the petition to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee. Sign the petition now! A delegation of Iraqis from the Marshes went to visit the city of Ashankayef, also threatened by the Ilisu dam, and they […]
Flooding the Cradle of Civilization: Campaign Against the Ilisu Dam
by: Johanna L. Rivera Last year around this time I was in a town called Hasankeyf located along the Tigris River in the Batman Province in Turkey. The Tigris Valley, with the ancient city of Hasankeyf at its centre, is one of mankind’s most valuable cultural assets. We drove from Kiziltepe, passing through the ancient […]
Marsh Arabs protest Ilisu Project in Hasankeyf عرب الاهوار يحتجون ضد مشروع اليسو في “حسن كيف”
Cradle of Civilization at Risk of Desertification – Tigris Declaration sent to UN Hasankeyf, Turkey, May 22, 2012 “We have come from Iraq to speak, because no one came from Iraq to speak to us. We live in one of the most significant regions in the world – the Mesopotamian marshlands – which is in […]
What Justice for Iraqi Victims of Private Military and Security Companies?
The ICSSI Takes Action! The last ten years have seen a dramatic increase in the use of private military and security companies [PMSCs] in places of armed conflict, especially by the United States and the United Kingdom. These private companies have been implicated in illegal use of force, the killing of civilians, torture, sexual assault, […]
Lower Courts to Hear Iraqi Civilians’ Claims of Beatings, Forced Nudity, Broken Bones, and Rape at Hands of Corporate Defendants May 11, 2012, Richmond, VA – Today, a federal appellate court dismissed the appeals of two private military contractors who had argued they were immune from litigation when they engage in torture. The corporate defendants, CACI and […]
The Baghdad Marathon project was born 4 years ago from an Italian Runners group that think that Sports can have an important role in building Peace and Civil Society rights for freedom. From that moment we started to work hardly for bringing to know the project to NGO that are working in Iraq, having the […]
Motion proposed to Iraqi parliament
The Civil Peace Initiative in Iraq submitted to the Committee of Civil Society Organizations in the Iraqi Council of Representatives(ICR) (Iraqi parliament) a demand to vote on making 2012: a Year of Civic Peace in Iraq, and the adoption of the objectives of the initiative in making the civil peace as national priority for all […]
Support for the Iraqi campaign to repeal the new journalists’ law
Iraq’s Journalist Protection Law, approved in August 2011 by the Iraqi Parliament which was facing international pressure to reform its laws concerning the media, in fact constitutes a threat to independent media. It even leaves in place laws of the Saddam era that allow journalists to be imprisoned for up to seven years for insulting […]