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‘We Don’t Trust Anyone’: Iraq’s Displaced Minorities Not Ready To Return Home

‘We Don’t Trust Anyone’: Iraq’s Displaced Minorities Not Ready To Return Home

Niqash Even though the extremist group Islamic State has lost ground in Iraq, displaced minority groups are not returning home....

  • Minorities and IDPs
Iraq Counts on Magic Wands to Stop ISIS

Iraq Counts on Magic Wands to Stop ISIS

Source: thedailybeast Despite warnings they didn’t work, Baghdad bought $85 million worth of gadgets that supposedly detect explosives. Today, two years...

  • Private Military Companies
Youth With #Shahrazad

Youth With #Shahrazad

Baghdad youth Camp implemented in March 2015 On the morning of Thursday, 6 March 2015, the Iraqi Social Forum opened...

  • Right of Political Participation of Women
Kurdistan Region of Iraq 2020 – A Vision for the Future: Water and Sanitation for a Growing Economy

Kurdistan Region of Iraq 2020 – A Vision for the Future: Water and Sanitation for a Growing Economy

Document released by the Iraqi Kurdistan Ministry of Planning, May 2015 Vision Water security for all, and water and sanitation services...

  • Environment
IRAQ – Mounting Deadly Danger for Journalists in Iraq

IRAQ – Mounting Deadly Danger for Journalists in Iraq

REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS Reporters Without Borders is deeply worried by journalist Raed Al-Joubouri’s murder at his Baghdad home last week...

  • Freedom of Expression
Open Letter to the Iraqi Government, the Kurdistan Regional Government from the Save the Tigris and Iraqi Marshes Campaign

Open Letter to the Iraqi Government, the Kurdistan Regional Government from the Save the Tigris and Iraqi Marshes Campaign

PRESS RELEASE: May 12, 2015 Iraq faces a growing water emergency. Frequent water shortages, due to chronic mismanagement, have intensified...

  • Environment
A New Chapter in Iraqi-Turkish Transboundary Water Relations

A New Chapter in Iraqi-Turkish Transboundary Water Relations

Assist. Prof. Vakur Sümer, ORSAM Advisor, Selçuk University Several weeks after the resignation of previous Iraqi administration in August, Turkish President Erdoğan...

  • Environment
Erbil hosts international and Iraqi activists for the Strategy Meeting of the Save the Tigris Campaign

Erbil hosts international and Iraqi activists for the Strategy Meeting of the Save the Tigris Campaign

Prior to the Save the Tigris Campaign Strategy Meeting, 9-11 May, Erbil, Iraq The current political and security crisis in...

  • Environment
Collective Celebration of Workers’Day in Baghdad

Collective Celebration of Workers’Day in Baghdad

The Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative spreads the message of Iraqi unions and civil society organizations on May 1st Celebrations...

  • Social and Economic Rights
Focus on Iraq at the World Social Forum 2015

Focus on Iraq at the World Social Forum 2015

By Martina Pignatti Morano (Un ponte per… and ICSSI ) – April 2015. The World Social Forum has always been...

  • Environment
GFWU in Basrah Celebrates the International Labor Day

GFWU in Basrah Celebrates the International Labor Day

In the first of May, on the sound of drums, the celebrations began in Basra on the occasion of International...

  • Social and Economic Rights
Iraq calls for regional strategic investments projects in the Tigris-Euphrates basin

Iraq calls for regional strategic investments projects in the Tigris-Euphrates basin

Shafaq News On Wednesday, Iraq called for the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to be the foundation of joint cooperation projects...

  • Environment