Choosing to Return? Prospects for Durable Solutions in Iraq
OXFAM Executive Summary – December 2015 Nearly ten months since the earliest reports of returnees in parts of the country, a...
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Cultural heritage in times of conflict in Syria and Iraq: a case for prosecution?
By Toon Bijnens, ICSSI The Hague, December 2015 In a landmark case for cultural crimes, the first person charged with...
The Perpetual Coma of “COP21”: Climate Change Conference in Paris and Iraqi Civil Society
*Ismaeel Dawood Paris, 12 December 2015 Recent news has been dominated by the negotiations of presidents in the ongoing world...
Save the Tigris and Iraqi Marshes Campaign Youth Camp in the Marshes of Al-Chibayish
ICSSI Baghdad, 2 December 2015 For three days, Iraqi youth activists of the Save the Tigris River and the Iraqi Marshes Campaign...
Nechirvan Barzani: We Seek to Improve the Mechanisms of Application for Anti-violence Against Women Laws
ZagrosTV – Erbil On Thursday, in the capital city of Erbil, events to compact violence against women were launched with...
‘I’ll Warm Myself on Fire of Revenge’: Hatred Hangs in Ruins of Iraq’s Sinjar
SINJAR, IRAQ Reuters – BY ISABEL COLES The picnic tables on the mountainside overlooking the town of Sinjar are a...
The Parliamentary Committee for Women Adopts the Study of Shahrazad Campaign on Sexual Harassment in the Iraqi Society
On Tuesday, 17 Nov. 2015, the Parliamentary Committee for Women’s Affairs and the Iraqi Women Journalists Forum held a meeting...
The Blighted City – The Shocking Decline of Iraq’s Oil Capital
The Economist – Basrah WHEN not organising protests at the gates of Basra’s giant oilfields, jobless graduates spend their days playing...
There is No Military Solution to Violent Extremism
As a reaction to the deadly attacks by Daesh in Beirut and Paris, the Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative together...
Three Reasons Why Some People Downplay the Risk of the Ilisu Dam on Iraq?
In this intervention, the Save the Tigris River and the Iraqi Marshes Campaign aims to review the three most important...
After KRG Formally Welcomes Jews Back to Iraq, Will their Numbers Increase?
Al-Monitor – BAGHDAD, Iraq Many Iraqi Jews forced from their country or displaced following persecution and dispossession more than six decades ago still...
UN Delegation Visits Dhi Qar Province to Assess A Possible Inclusion of the Marshes’ in the World Heritage List
Shafaq News The administration of Dhi Qar province said on Thursday that a delegation from the United Nations experts visited...