He’s Not Good Enough For You: In Northern Iraq, Tribal Traditions Build On Ancient Class System
Dashty Ali – Niqash Tribal traditions around marriage in northern Iraq prevent young people from marrying outside the social group; it’s both the root and the symptom of an ancient tribal class system. Although Iraqi Kurdish cities may appear relatively liberal, there is still a kind of class war going in in many parts […]
On the occasion of the International Women’s day, the Iraqi Social Forum Economic and Social Rights Masar (path) and the Solidarity Center organized a series of training and activities for working women to promote the new labor law in Iraq. The activities started with a workshop on working women rights in the new labor law, […]
Open Letter to Bresser Eurasia and Er-Bu İnşaat
+++ Initiative to Keep Hasankeyf Alive, Turkey +++ Mesopotamian Ecology Movement, Turkey +++ Hasankeyf Matters, Turkey +++ Save the Tigris and Iraqi Marshes Campaign, Iraq +++ Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative, Iraq +++ Humat Dijla, Iraq+++ Movement for the Protection of Aracthos River, Greece +++ Ecological collective of Irakleio, Greece +++ Friends of the Earth, Greece […]
a Workshop on The Principles of Voluntary Work Organized by Mashhoofna Team in Dhi Qar
Mashhoofna team who represents an important and promising part of the experience of the Iraqi Social Forum in Southern Iraq and specifically in Dhi Qar province organized a workshop in partnership with the Iraqi Social Forum (ISF) about the principles of voluntary work, on Friday, 3rd of March in Dhi Qar. This workshop was part […]
Unions Demand Russia’s LUKoil to Reinstate Laid-off Iraqi Employees
The General Union for Workers in the Oil and Gas (GFWIU), subsidiary of the General Federation of Workers Unions in Iraq, has condemned of the dismissal of a large number of Iraqi workers in Russia’s oil company LUKoil, which is developing the West Qurna oil fields in Basra governorate. This condemnation was issued in a […]
Representation of Women in Political Parties, Electoral Commission and Legislative Authorities
On 25 February 2017, Shahrazad, the Iraqi Women’s Journalist Forum, the Arabica Women’s Union and the Governance Centre for Public Policies joined together to give a seminar about the political representation of women in political parties, legislative authorities, and the electoral commission. During the Seminar, conducted by the lawyer, Ms Alyaa Alhasan, speakers explaned the […]
The Shahrazad Legal Clinic: Celebrating One Year of Legal Support for WHRDs Around Iraq
The Shahrazad Legal Clinic is a unique place in Baghdad, hosted by the Iraqi Women Journalists’ Forum, where a professional lawyer offers free services to women human rights defenders (WHRDs) whose rights have been violated. The Legal Clinic helps WHRDs (female journalists, unionists, NGO workers and activists), who are exposed to threats relating to their […]
The Condition of Workers’ Rights and Freedom of Labor Union in Kurdistan Region and Iraq
“Workers’ Rights and Freedom of Association” is a joint project run by PFOK and NPA in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region. The project, which has an implementation period of four years, began in July 2016. A number of researchers from PFOK have conducted a study of the project between July and December of 2016. By […]
The changing of the guard on the 38th floor of the United Nations building in New York, with Antonio Guterres taking over for Ban Ki-Moon as UN Secretary-General, has taken place at a time when notions about peace and conflict are undergoing a subtle change. In particular, the role of resources – and especially water […]
Protests in Iranian city where “Everything is covered in brown dust”
TEHRAN — Days of protests over dust storms, power failures and government mismanagement in one of Iran’s most oil-rich cities subsided on Sunday after security forces declared all demonstrations illegal. Residents of Ahvaz, a city with a majority Arab population near the border with Iraq, had been protesting for five days in increasingly large gatherings, […]
Drafting a New Social Security Law for Iraq
Iraq is in need of legislation that provides real social security guarantees for workers and employees. The Iraqi government is currently drafting a new social security law without proper consultation of civil society. To discuss the adoption of such law, trade unions, teachers and social security experts gathered in a seminar organized by the Iraqi […]
ICSSI contributes to the launch of the Observatory to Prevent Extremist Violence (OPEV)
ICSSI contributes to the launch of the Observatory to Prevent Extremist Violence (OPEV) and invites its members to join the platform and sign the Plan of Action of the Euro-Mediterranean civil society to Prevent Extremist Violence From January 28th to 30th, Barcelona hosted the conference “Towards a new paradigm: Preventing Violent Extremism”, involving 322 people […]