A Great Achievement After 4 years of Campaigning: The Marshes of Iraq Inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage
Statement by the Save the Tigris and Iraqi Marshes Campaign 20 July, 2016 Congratulations to the Iraqi people and everyone...
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Iraqi Marshlands named as UNESCO World Heritage Site!
UNESCO has named Iraqi marshlands as a world heritage site! The area named “is made up of seven sites: three...
Signs of Violence to Come: Iraq’s Yazidis Return Home to Face Cruel Economic Blockade
Mosul – Niqash Many of the Yazidis who were so brutalised by the extremist Daesh group have returned home – but...
London hosts academic conference on Iraq’s water resources
Concern mounts about the future of Iraq’s water resources, and in an important development Iraqi President Fouad Masoum warned about...
Mega water projects and the environmental crisis in the Iraqi Marshes: a publication by A Sud
Beyond the rhetoric of “waves” as used by the media in their narrative of migration flows to Europe lies a...
Civilians Fleeing Fallujah “Facing Double Jeopardy”
GENEVA – OHCHR UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Tuesday urged the Iraqi Government to...
Privatising Security Must not Lower Standards of Protection and Accountability – UN Rights Expert
GENEVA – OHCHR The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns, today has called...
Iraqi Media Focuses on the Misfortunes of Minorities and Contributes to their Emigration
Ahmed Mohammad – Iraqi Media House An Iraqi Christian cleric declared that the Iraqi media focuses on minority issues mostly...
Iraq Borrows $ 2.7 Billion from the United States
Source: Almaalomah The US embassy in Baghdad revealed that Iraq has borrowed $ 2.7 billion to finance the ammunition and maintenance...
International Civil Society Urges WHC Member States to Vote YES for Iraqi Marshes
Istanbul, 10 July 2016 Save the Tigris and the Iraqi Marshes Campaign At the conclusion of this year’s annual...
Iraqi youth in action to protect the Tigris River
Protecting the Tigris River of Iraq: this will be the main objective for a new group of committed youth activists...
No Way Home: Iraq’s Minorities on the Verge of Disappearance
By UNPO, 4 July 2016. Minority communities in Iraq are now on the verge of disappearance, says a new report...