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New Report Highlights the Disastrous Impact of Daryan Dam on Iraq

New Report Highlights the Disastrous Impact of Daryan Dam on Iraq

Statement by the Save the Tigris and Iraqi Marshes Campaign 28 October 2016 The Save the Tigris and Iraqi Marshes...

  • Environment
PAX Iraq Alert IV | October 24th 2016

PAX Iraq Alert IV | October 24th 2016

Mosul: Peacebuilding After ISIS With the offensive on Mosul unfolding, awareness is growing that one day, military groups united in...

  • Civil Society News
The Regional and Domestic Political Context of the Mosul Offensive

The Regional and Domestic Political Context of the Mosul Offensive

Sada – KIRK H. SOWELL qi security forces began direct operations to liberate Mosul, the capital of Nineveh province, from...

  • Civil Society News
House Of The Devil? Religious Extremists Bomb Cafes In Basra Because They Employ Women

House Of The Devil? Religious Extremists Bomb Cafes In Basra Because They Employ Women

Niqash – Ammar al-Saleh It was the second bombing of its kind. And after the incident, those clearing the wreckage in...

  • Right of Political Participation of Women
Military operation on Mosul: the statement of UN OCHA

Military operation on Mosul: the statement of UN OCHA

As the military coalition advances and re-captures territory from Daesh militants, every military action is generating humanitarian needs. UN Secretary...

  • Civil Society News
Violence Against Minorities in Iraq, Report summary

Violence Against Minorities in Iraq, Report summary

The Iraqi organization “Masarat” and Sa’ad Salloum released a new report on minorities in Iraq. The report “Violence Against Minorities in Iraq”...

  • Minorities and IDPs
Tigris Keepers workshop at the 3rd session of the Iraqi Social Forum

Tigris Keepers workshop at the 3rd session of the Iraqi Social Forum

Ali Alkarkhi – Coordinator of Save the Tigris and Iraqi Marshes Campaign and Humat Dijla in Iraq 24 September 2016 ,...

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Shahrazad Festival in Erbil, United Against Sexual Harassment

Shahrazad Festival in Erbil, United Against Sexual Harassment

The Shahrazad Campaign aims to mobilize Kurdistan’s civil society against sexual harassment. To that end, the Iraq Civil Society Solidarity...

  • Right of Political Participation of Women
Iraqi and International Expertise to Protect Women Human Rights Defenders Iraq

Iraqi and International Expertise to Protect Women Human Rights Defenders Iraq

      September 25-27, 2016 Aysar Shihab – Baghdad   The Shahrazad Centre for the Protection of Human rights...

  • Human Rights
The Iraqi protest movement explained, at World Social Forum 2016

The Iraqi protest movement explained, at World Social Forum 2016

By ICSSI, August 2016. The World Social Forum 2016 took place for the first time in a country of the...

  • Iraqi Social Forum (ISF)
A Weekend of Rights and Peace in “Another Iraq”

A Weekend of Rights and Peace in “Another Iraq”

The Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative celebrates the tremendous success of the Iraqi Social Forum and The Baghdad Marathon for...

  • Iraqi Social Forum (ISF)
The World Social Forum after Montreal

The World Social Forum after Montreal

By Pierre Beaudet, Intercoll (Canada), October 2016. The last World Social Forum in Montreal came to an end last August...

  • Iraqi Social Forum (ISF)