Press Statement by WADI on The Current Situation in Sinjar (Iraq)
By WADI, Association for Crisis Assistance and Solidary Development Cooperation. Wadi calls the German Federal Government to provide support by all necessary means to help rescue Yazidis, Christians, Shabak, Turkman and other Iraqis of minority groups whose lives are in clear danger, and provide the Kurdish Regional Government with appropriate and practical assistance in their […]
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 displaced and trapped Yazidis in the Sinjar Mountains. The extent and scope of their suffering represents a humanitarian disaster. A statement issued on Monday by the Association asserts that: “even given the dire humanitarian situation […]
Will Iraqi Blacks Win Justice?
By SAAD SALLOUM, JULY 22, 2014. BAGHDAD — Jalal Dhiyab Thijeel was tall, funny and handsome, qualities that should have made him a popular man in Basra, Iraq, where he lived. But he was also black, one of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who have been pushed to the margins of society based on their […]
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 to stop immediate threat of US escalation in Iraq. The House on Friday overwhelmingly passed a symbolic resolution that calls for the executive branch to attain explicit approval from Congress before deploying troops to Iraq […]
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 amid reports that vulnerable families seeking refuge are being refused entry or forced into transit camps along ethnic lines. In the days after militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), seized […]
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 consensus politics makes getting things done impossible. But thanks to his past behaviour – where he has sidelined Parliament, effectively making any opposition powerless – he may have fallen into a trap of his own […]
Source: wadi-online A first independent study on female genital mutilation in central/southern Iraq finds that 25% of the women in these regions were subjected to this practice. The study was conducted in early 2014 in cooperation between physicians, women’s rights and civil society organizations. The researchers’ identities remain undisclosed due to securitiy concerns. 500 women in […]
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 is concerned that parties involved in the current conflict in Iraq and Syria might resort to using water and its infrastructure as a weapon of war. Over the past weeks, several news stories have reported […]
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 cities of Tal ‘Afar, Mosul and Ba’quba, confirmed and expanded by a report of Human Rights Watch on mass murder of Sunni prisoners – published a new alarming report on sectarian killings and abductions by […]
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 political blocs to fulfill the constitutional obligations in the aftermath of the recent elections, ninety civil society organizations have signed this declaration to launch the Civil Initiative under the slogan: “Achieving Civil and Societal Peace […]
MOSCOW – Project Syndicate In May, Vietnam became the 35th and decisive signatory of the 1997 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses. As a result, 90 days later, on August 17, the convention will enter into force. The fact that it took almost 50 years to draft and finally achieve the […]
The National Committee of the Iraqi Social Forum Baghdad 09/07/2014 Our country, Iraq, is suffering under the weight of a merciless attack which threatens our territorial integrity, seeds discord between the various sects of the Iraqi people, which cares not a bit for the safety of the people, and which shows a complete and utter […]