July 12, 2013 – The International Solidarity Committee of the World Social Forum is supporting the preparation of the first Iraqi Social Forum, scheduled to take place in Baghdad on 26-28 September 2013. One of the key aims of the ISF (Iraqi Social Forum) is to build peace and justice and overcome all forms of […]
Federation of Oil Unions in Iraq No. 260 Date: 01/07/2013 To / All Iraqi and international trade unions, federations and civil society organizations Subject/ a statement on the occasion of dropping charges against the head of our union, the human rights defender and trade union activist Hassan Juma Awad Basra, 1st of July, 2013 In […]
Baghdad 6/7/2013 The Press Freedom Advocacy Association held on Saturday a deliberative workshop to put the finishing touches on the “first suggestion to amend the law of journalists rights” prepared by the Association. The Workshop was held at the Ambassador Hotel in central Baghdad, attended by a number of journalists and legal experts, as well […]
A joint statement by the Iraq Civil Society Solidarity Initiative (ICSSI), AFL-CIO Solidarity Center and U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW) Months after the Iraq Ministry of Oil lodged a criminal complaint against Hassan Juma’a Awad, President of the Iraq Federation of Oil Unions (IFOU), the charges were finally heard by a Basra court. The […]
Save the Tigris Campaign holds successful seminars in four South Iraq Provinces
Last week, the Save the Tigris Campaign held seminars in four provinces in South Iraq: Basra, Missan, Dhi Qar and Qadissiya with the support of local civil society and activists. The seminars were held in Basra, on June 27th, Amara on June 28th, Nasirya, on June 29th and Diwaniya, on June 30th. The southern provinces […]
A campaign that includes U.S. and Iraqi groups request to take their case to the OAS demanding accountability and reparations from the U.S. for human rights and health crises resulting from the war of 2003 on Iraq. The Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative (ICSSI) supports The Right to Heal Initiative which was launched in the […]
When austerity cuts in Italy hurt an Iraqi girl in Baghdad
Riam is a 7-year-old girl living in Baghdad with her family. She was born with a severe malformation to her face. This angioma disfigured her and threatened to make her blind. However tragic, Riam’s story is commonplace in Iraq. So many children are born with malformations, in many cases serious and life threatening. Studies have […]
Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia and the Similar Turkish Case
By: Ahmed az-Zoba`i Translation from Arabic by: Safaa Sheikh Hammed Original Arabic: http://www.iraqnewspaper.net/news.php?action=view&id=22010 “Egypt is the gift of the Nile,” says Herodotus. Egypt could have been part of the Great Arab Desert without the Nile. The same thing can be applied on the Tigris and Euphrates. These two rivers were responsible for the making of the alluvial plain and the fertile soil in Iraq. […]
Your “Charges” Are Their Rights! Drop the Charges!
Update June 18th: The hearing was again postponed for July 1st, 2013 because the judge had to travel to Baghdad. We continue to pay close attention to the case and continue our international solidarity efforts! — In the end the Iraqi government didn’t listen to national and international calls to withdraw the legal case against […]
Resistance Against Destruction of Taksim Gezi Park
——————————————————————————————————————————————————————-This is a call for INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY International Human Rights Organizations and Dear Friends, Comrades, Press Members from all over the world; This is an urgent call from human rights defenders, activists, NGOs, professional chambers, grassroots, neighbourhood associations and Istanbulites. Since the 27th of May,Istanbulites from all social and political backgrounds and ages and from […]
Gezi Park Voices: “We Exist, We are Here and We Have Demands”.
This is the latest press statement of the Taksim Solidarity – http://taksimdayanisma.org/ *** To the Government and the people of the Republic of Turkey Across the country, particularly in Istanbul-Taksim, all the citizens are demonstrating their democratic reaction to the police violence pursued by the government as a response to the social sensitivity to the attempts […]
As I sit in front of my computer, reading the news about the escalation in violence in Iraq, my heart fills with sadness. According to UN reports, more than a thousand people have been killed in May. For me Iraq is not a distant, Middle East country, full of Muslim extremists. It is the place […]