This resource-page is an archive of documents. The first section are documents related to the Save the Tigris Campaign. The second section is a collection of reports, papers and videos on the Tigris river and Iraqi Marshes in general.  This page is regularly updated: it is a work-in-progress.

General campaign documents:

• Terms of Reference in English.
• 2012 Campaign outline in Arabic – عربي
• Letter to UNESCO to save the world heritage on the Tigris river and the Iraqi Marshes from the Ilisu Dam, following our 2012 petition.
• Video “Iraqi Marshes: Beauty and Civilization in Danger” – EN عربي

Campaign papers and reports:

• Report on the impact of the Daryan Dam on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, 28 October 2016
• Article by Toon Bijnens and Johanna Rivera of the Save the Tigris Campaign: Mega water projects and the environmental crisis in the Iraqi Marshes: a publication by A Sud
• Report of the Save the Tigris Campaign training for Iraqi youth activists, 26-27 June 2016
• Shadow Report on the Ilisu Dam’s Impacts on Human Rights in Iraq, and the Iraqi Government’s Failure to Act – Geneva Meeting, 4 September 2015
• Report of the Save the Tigris Campaign Strategy Meeting “Save the Tigris: Your Duty and Mine” in Erbil (Iraq), 9-12 May 2015
• Legal paper on the legal possibilities available to Iraq to respond to the threat posed by the Ilisu Dam (March 2014) as presented by the campaign to the Iraqi government – EN عربي
• Paper presented by the Save The Tigris Campaign to the International workshop held in Basra, 15-16 February 2014: “Water Quality in Basra: Towards a National Policy and (Inter)national Cooperation”.

Press releases of the campaign:

• Press Release September 22, 2016: Call for Collaboration on the Implementation of UNESCO Recommendations for the Iraqi Marshes – EN
• Press Release July 20, 2016: A Great Achievement After 4 years of Campaigning: The Marshes of Iraq Inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage – EN
• Press Release June 9, 2016: Call for Action to Protect the Marshlands of Mesopotamia! – EN
• Presss Release January 20, 2016: The Mosul Dam and the Italian Role. What are the Risks? – EN
• Press Release September 29, 2015: The Threat of Ilisu Dam and the Failure of the Iraqi Government to Protect Iraqi’s Right to Water – EN
• Press Release June 23, 2015: List Hasankeyf and The Iraqi Marshes Now! Stop Ilisu Dam from Destroying World Heritage – EN
• Press Release May 12, 2015: Open Letter to the Iraqi Government, the Kurdistan Regional Government – EN
• Press Release July 15, 2014: Water and its Infrastructure are not Weapons of War, Protect Civilians’ Right to Water in Iraq – EN
• Press Release February 3, 2014: Iraqi Marshres, Second Step towards the World Heritage – EN
• Press Kit Iraqi Social Forum September 26, 2013: Save the Tigris Campaign – EN
• Press Release September 26, 2013: International Activists meet in Baghdad to Discuss Legal Strategies to Protect the Tigris River – EN عربي
• Press Release August 20, 2013: Include Ilisu dam on the Meeting Agenda with Turkish Opposition Leader – EN  عربي كردى
• Press Release June 27, 2013:  Open Letter on the submission of the Central Marshes to the World Heritage Committee – EN عربي
• Press Release March 22, 2013: Open Letter to Andritz on Impacts of Ilisu on Iraq – EN
• Press Release March 14, 2013: International Day of River Action-Baghdad – EN عربي
• Press Release July 12, 2012: Demands to the Iraqi Government –EN عربي
• Press Release May 25, 2012: Marsh Arabs Protest Ilisu Project in Hasankeyf – EN عربي

Power Point presentations (Amman 2013 workshop):

• Dr. Shaker Makhzoumi: Water Crisis in Iraq
• Dr. Mukdad Al Jabbari: Ilisu Dam and its Negative Impact on Development Plans in Iraq
• Eng. Salam Taha: Save the Tigris and the Iraqi Marshes Campaign
• Eng. Johanna L. Rivera: Case Studies on the Global Water Struggle

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Water resources in the Middle-East:

• The Blue Peace Report: Rethinking Middle East Water” (Waslekar, 2011)
• Factsheet World Environment Day (Arabic – عربي)
• “Where Oil and Water Do Mix: Environmental Scarcity and Future Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa” (Morrissette & Borer, 2004)

United Nations (UN) reports:

• “The Mesopotamian Marshlands: Demise of an Ecosystem” (2001)
• “Biodiversity and ecosystem management in the Iraqi Marshlands” (2011)
• “Water in Iraq” Factsheet (2013)

Ilisu and international water relations in the Tigris-Euphrates bassin:

• “The Ilisu dam: a human rights disaster in the making” (Kurdish Human Rights Project, 1999)
• “Downstream impact of Turkish dam construction on Syria and Iraq” (Cornerhouse report of fact-finding mission, 2002)
• “A review of the hydrologic and geomorphic impacts of the proposed Ilisu dam” (Philip Williams & Associates, 2006)
• “Ilisu: downstream water impacts and Iraq” (Cornerhouse report of fact-finding mission, 2007)
• “The Ilisu dam in Turkey and the role of export credit agencies and NGO networks” (Water Alternatives, 2010)
• “The sruggle over Turkey’s Ilisu dam” (Warner, 2012)
• KRG 2020: a vision for the futureKRG 202: a vision for the future (2013)
• “Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment of Large Dams in the Euphrates–Tigris Region: An Analysis of International Law Binding Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey” (Nicolas C. Bremer, 2016)

The Iraqi Marshes:

• The Ahwar of Southern Iraq: Official UNESCO World Heritage Page
• Inscription announcement of the Iraqi Marshes in the UNESCO World Heritage List
• “Ecological Collapse Circumscribes Traditional Women’s Work in Iraq’s Mesopotamian Marshes” (Fawzi, 2016)
• “The restoration potential of the Mesopotamian Marshes of Iraq” (Richardson, 2004)
• “The water buffalo in the Iraqi Marshes” (Abid, 2007)
• “Restoratian vs. re-flooding: Mesopotamia Marshlands” (Douaboul, 2012)