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Realities of Climate-Induced Migration in Iraq’s Southern Cities

Realities of Climate-Induced Migration in Iraq’s Southern Cities

IOM Environmental degradation over the last 10 years has severely damaged Iraq’s agricultural sector. Worsening water scarcity and quality have...

  • Climate Change
GCHR’s 19th Periodic Report on Human Rights Violations in Iraq

GCHR’s 19th Periodic Report on Human Rights Violations in Iraq

GCHR This is the nineteenth periodic report issued by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) since January 2020, documenting...

  • Freedoms
GCHR’s Periodic Report on Human Rights Violations in the Kurdistan Region

GCHR’s Periodic Report on Human Rights Violations in the Kurdistan Region

GCHR Authorities in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq continue to violate freedom of expression and freedom of peaceful assembly by...

  • Freedom of Expression
Iraqi Election 2021: EU Election Observation Mission Releases its ‘Preliminary’ Results

Iraqi Election 2021: EU Election Observation Mission Releases its ‘Preliminary’ Results

K24 ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Following its monitoring of the early Iraqi parliamentary elections, the European Election Observation Mission (EUOM)...

  • Iraqi Elections
Turnout in Iraq’s Election Reached 41% – Electoral Commission

Turnout in Iraq’s Election Reached 41% – Electoral Commission

Reuters BAGHDAD, Oct 10 (Reuters) – Initial turnout in Iraq’s parliamentary election on Sunday was 41%, the electoral commission said,...

  • Iraqi Elections
Security Forces, IDPs Cast Votes Early in Iraq’s Parliamentary Elections

Security Forces, IDPs Cast Votes Early in Iraq’s Parliamentary Elections

al-monitor Early voting has opened in Iraq’s parliamentary elections. Early voting is underway for Iraq’s parliamentary elections, with soldiers, prisoners,...

  • Iraqi Elections
October 10th Early Elections Perspectives From Iraqi Civil Society

October 10th Early Elections Perspectives From Iraqi Civil Society

Abstract To understand the roots and dynamics of the early elections of 10th October 2021 in Iraq, it is necessary...

  • Iraqi Elections
International Water Forum Discusses the Water Crisis in North-East Syria

International Water Forum Discusses the Water Crisis in North-East Syria

The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria held a water conference from 27-28 September 2021 in Hasakeh, North-East Syria,...

  • Anti-Dams Actions
Iraqi Kurdish Court Extends Journalist Omed Baroshky’s Prison Sentence by 1 Year

Iraqi Kurdish Court Extends Journalist Omed Baroshky’s Prison Sentence by 1 Year

CPJ New York, September 23, 2021 — In response to an Erbil court’s ruling today to extend the imprisonment of...

  • Freedom of Expression
Man Acquitted in Wife’s Murder After She was Found Alive

Man Acquitted in Wife’s Murder After She was Found Alive

The Siasat Daily In the details of the incident, as per the media reports, the case dates back to July...

  • Civil Society News
As Its Rivers Shrink, Iraq Thirsts For Regional Cooperation

As Its Rivers Shrink, Iraq Thirsts For Regional Cooperation

HALABJA, Iraq — “Where we are standing right now, there should be a river,” says Nabil Musa, gesturing at a...

  • Anti-Dams Actions
The Iraqi Local Social Forums Conducts a Dialogue Online Session on the Reality of the Iraqi Labor Laws

The Iraqi Local Social Forums Conducts a Dialogue Online Session on the Reality of the Iraqi Labor Laws

The forums of Fallujah, Najaf, and Maysan, within the space of the Iraqi Social Forum, organized a dialogue session on...

  • Iraqi Social Forum (ISF)