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The Trapped Yezidis in the Sinjar Mountains Represent a Humanitarian Disaster!

The Trapped Yezidis in the Sinjar Mountains Represent a Humanitarian Disaster!

The Brotherhood and Solidarity Association of Yezidi renewed their call to the whole world to intervene immediately to help the...

  • Minorities and IDPs
Will Iraqi Blacks Win Justice?

Will Iraqi Blacks Win Justice?

By SAAD SALLOUM, JULY 22, 2014. BAGHDAD — Jalal Dhiyab Thijeel was tall, funny and handsome, qualities that should have...

  • Human Rights
USA: Resolution Against New Iraq War Passes House in Landslide

USA: Resolution Against New Iraq War Passes House in Landslide

Published on Friday, July 25, 2014 on CommonDreams, by Sarah Lazare. Peace campaigners say passage is important step in effort...

  • Civil Society News
Selective Treatment for IDPs in Kurdistan!

Selective Treatment for IDPs in Kurdistan!

ERBIL, 16 July 2014 (IRIN)  Concern is growing over how the semi-autonomous government of Iraqi Kurdistan is managing its borders...

  • Civil Society News
Iraqi Pm’s Talk of Majority Govt Will Come to Nothing – And It’s His Own Fault!

Iraqi Pm’s Talk of Majority Govt Will Come to Nothing – And It’s His Own Fault!

Niqash | Baghdad  The Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, has been talking about the need for a majority government because...

  • Civil Society News
One in Four Women in Central and Southern Iraq is Affected by Female Genital Mutilation, New Study Suggests!

One in Four Women in Central and Southern Iraq is Affected by Female Genital Mutilation, New Study Suggests!

Source: wadi-online A first independent study on female genital mutilation in central/southern Iraq finds that 25% of the women in these...

  • Right of Political Participation of Women
Water and its Infrastructure are not Weapons of War, Protect Civilians’ Right to Water in Iraq

Water and its Infrastructure are not Weapons of War, Protect Civilians’ Right to Water in Iraq

Save the Tigris and Iraqi Marshes Campaign Tuesday 15 July 2014   The Save the Tigris and Iraqi Marshes Campaign...

  • Environment
Iraq: Evidence of spiralling sectarian killings and abductions

Iraq: Evidence of spiralling sectarian killings and abductions

Amnesty International – after spreading evidence of extrajudicial executions of detainees by government forces and Shi’a militias in the Iraqi...

  • Civil Society News
The Iraqi Civil Initiative is Launched by 90 Civil Society Organizations!

The Iraqi Civil Initiative is Launched by 90 Civil Society Organizations!

 11 July, 2014 In the face of the vicious terrorist onslaught against our country, and the inability of the ruling...

  • Civil Society News
The Unity of Water!

The Unity of Water!

MOSCOW – Project Syndicate In May, Vietnam became the 35th and decisive signatory of the 1997 United Nations Convention on the...

  • Environment
A Call from The Iraqi Social Forum to Civil Society Groups and Social Movements Inside and Outside Iraq for Positive and Constructive Social Action

A Call from The Iraqi Social Forum to Civil Society Groups and Social Movements Inside and Outside Iraq for Positive and Constructive Social Action

The National Committee of the Iraqi Social Forum Baghdad 09/07/2014 Our country, Iraq, is suffering under the weight of a...

  • Iraqi Social Forum (ISF)
Iraq’s Assyrian Christians Fear ISIS Threat to Heritage!

Iraq’s Assyrian Christians Fear ISIS Threat to Heritage!

Mohammed A. Salih – Almonitor ALQOSH, Iraq — When militants led by the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) — now...

  • Civil Society News