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In the days ahead, the Iraqi Council of Representatives is poised to vote on a draft law regarding freedom of expression and peaceful demonstration, in a stark and unequivocal attempt that disregards civil society and the amendments it proposed to the
Read moreAt a time when political disputes and international conflicts are aggravated within the Iraqi territories; we would like to renew our devotion to human and constitutional rights of expression, and not to use human rights in such conflicts. The latest
Read moreThe Iraqi Capital, Baghdad, witnessed the announcement of forming the Coalition to Defend Freedom of Expression on February 12th, 2024, which includes Non-Governmental Organizations, Parliament members, civil society activists and legal experts.
Read moreThis report was issued on World Press Freedom Day 2023 and covers the period stretching from May 3, 2022, until May 2, 2023. It accounts violations committed against press freedom and media workers and includes first-hand testimonies from journalists who
Read morePublished in: Jummar Media Balsam Mustafa - Ban Layla In early October, a girl from Baghdad was subjected to a form of sexual harassment on public transport. Using her mobile phone, she documented the incident and shared it online with the help of her
Published in: The new humanitarian Mustafa Saadoon Now that more than 400 people have died, the world may finally be paying attention. But protests in Iraq are nothing new. Iraqis have been writing about their difficult day-to-day realities on social
Published in: Foreign Policy in Focus Belkis Wille “Armed groups,” “paramilitary forces,” “groups following the orders of another country.” Human rights advocates in Iraq use these descriptions all the time when we refer to the men with guns behind so
Published in American Prospect Sarah Leah Whitson Thirty years ago, some classmates and I took a break from our studies at Harvard and set out on a self-appointed mission. We traveled to Iraq to investigate the true devastation caused by the U.S.-led
Al-Hurra Channel in Washington hosted the head of the Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights, Mustafa Saadoon, to talk about the amnesty draft legislation, which is being talked about in political corridors. And how amnesties can be used to take out
Published in: Human Rights Watch According to Human Rights Watch (2022), the Iraqi government under former Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi failed to deliver on promises of legal accountability for state security personnel and state-backed armed groups
In the days ahead, the Iraqi Council of Representatives is poised to vote on a draft law regarding freedom of expression and peaceful demonstration, in a stark and unequivocal attempt that disregards civil society and the amendments it proposed to the
This report documents the testimonies of Iraqi women who lost their children during the past seven years and do not know their fate until now. In this report, we interviewed Iraqi women in Nineveh and Anbar governorates, and we conveyed their testimonies
This study was done during a difficult time for Iraq in view of the current political impasse and the political forces’ inability to form a government