Freedom of press and expression at risk as restrictions are placed on up to 44 media outlets
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights Beirut, 26 June 2012– In a wave of media repression, the Communications and Media Commission (CMC) in Iraq has called on the security forces to ban up to 44 media outlets due to alleged problems with their licences. The Commission was established in 2004 in order to monitor media […]
Baghdad: 24-6-2012 Many Iraqi journalists and members of the media agreed to work together in order to oppose the so-called “journalists’ rights law” and other laws that threaten a free press and the freedom of expression. Meeting at the Society for Defending Press Freedom headquarters in Baghdad, on Saturday, the journalists discussed the actions and […]
Baghdad Marathon – a Race for Peace and Human rights in Iraq
We run to make Iraq a free and democratic state. We run because sports promote friendship. We run for freedom. We run so that all Iraqis are equal, with the same rights and responsibilities. We run so that Baghdad is once again a city of peace. Marathons are held in the most important capitals of […]
ICSSI wants to announce that it has a new global partner for our Save the Tigris and Mesopotamia Campaign: 350.org. 350.org works to build a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. They work through online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions that are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer […]
Statement of the Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative (ICSSI) Solidarity with Iraqi union activists For immediate release 15-6-2012 A new wave of arrests, threats and reprimands against unionists is sweeping Iraq. A LabourStart campaign of the International Solidarity Center denounces: “Iraqi government agencies frequently interfere with internal union affairs, punishing union activists by imposing forced […]
Hundreds of journalists and media support the lawsuit against the “journalists’ law”
Hundreds of journalists and press, and activists, Announced their support for the lawsuit to against that called “the law of the rights of journalists,” that provided by the Association for Defending Freedom of the press by the personal names, and the administrative board of it, and recorded in the Federal Court under number 34 / […]
Disrupted lives, the effects of cross-border attacks by turkey and Iran on Kurdish Villages
A report by CPT Christian Peacemaking Teams (CPT) is an international human rights organization, working to reduce violence and build peace in a creative way. Since 2002 they have been working in Iraq, and in 2009 they obtained formal permission to work within Iraqi Kurdistan from the Ministry of planning of the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG). They have organized […]
The Tigris Declaration To Save Hasankeyf and Mesopotamian Marshes We are the people of Mesopotamia, one of the most remarkable areas of the world, known as the cradle of civilization. We are the people of Hasankeyf in Turkey and of the Marshes in Iraq. We are connected and combined by the Tigris river. The Tigris […]
Ongoing mobilization to save the Iraqi Marshes and oppose the Ilisu dam project on the Tigris river
The international campaign against the Ilisu dam project on the Tigris river has reached a new threshold: nearly 25 000 have signed the petition to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee. Sign the petition now! A delegation of Iraqis from the Marshes went to visit the city of Ashankayef, also threatened by the Ilisu dam, and they […]
Flooding the Cradle of Civilization: Campaign Against the Ilisu Dam
by: Johanna L. Rivera Last year around this time I was in a town called Hasankeyf located along the Tigris River in the Batman Province in Turkey. The Tigris Valley, with the ancient city of Hasankeyf at its centre, is one of mankind’s most valuable cultural assets. We drove from Kiziltepe, passing through the ancient […]
Marsh Arabs protest Ilisu Project in Hasankeyf عرب الاهوار يحتجون ضد مشروع اليسو في “حسن كيف”
Cradle of Civilization at Risk of Desertification – Tigris Declaration sent to UN Hasankeyf, Turkey, May 22, 2012 “We have come from Iraq to speak, because no one came from Iraq to speak to us. We live in one of the most significant regions in the world – the Mesopotamian marshlands – which is in […]
What Justice for Iraqi Victims of Private Military and Security Companies?
The ICSSI Takes Action! The last ten years have seen a dramatic increase in the use of private military and security companies [PMSCs] in places of armed conflict, especially by the United States and the United Kingdom. These private companies have been implicated in illegal use of force, the killing of civilians, torture, sexual assault, […]