2012
Counterfeit Medicine Plagues Iraqi Kurdistan
Muwaffaq Muhammad Bikhal, a young Kurdish woman, knows she may not live to see another spring. The leukemia that has ravaged her body since she was treated with defective chemotherapy drugs at a hospital in Iraqi Kurdistan has reduced her to a ghost of her former self. The 25-year-old gazes at the leaves falling from the plum tree in the courtyard of her home as her father, Hajj Saleh, relates her experience with the bogus medication that wrecked her chance of being cured of this deadly illness. A few days after it was administered at a government hospital, doctors informed…
Counterfeit Medicine Plagues Iraqi Kurdistan
Muwaffaq Muhammad Bikhal, a young Kurdish woman, knows she may not live to see another spring. The leukemia that has ravaged her body since she was treated with defective chemotherapy drugs at a hospital in Iraqi Kurdistan has reduced her to a ghost of her former self. The 25-year-old gazes at the leaves falling from the plum tree in the courtyard of her home as her father, Hajj Saleh, relates her experience with the bogus medication that wrecked her chance of being cured of this deadly illness. A few days after it was administered at a government hospital, doctors…
Iraq should investigate “Arbitrary Execution” of nationals by US forces
by:Maiadah Daood Ishaqi, Iraq - Ibrahim Harrat, a former army officer who lost one of his legs, bowed down to pick up the empty shells. These bullets were the ones used by US soldiers six and a half years ago – in this very house, now turned to rubble – to kill nine of his family members, including five children, the youngest of them barely nine months old. The US military is yet to disclose what really happened the night its forces raided the home of then 28-year-old elementary school-teacher Faiz Harrat. It claimed the victims fell in a “tactical…
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Iraq should investigate “Arbitrary Execution” of nationals by US forces
by:Maiadah Daood Ishaqi, Iraq – Ibrahim Harrat, a former army officer who lost one of his legs, bowed down to pick up the empty shells. These bullets were the ones used by US soldiers six and a half years ago – in this very house, now turned to rubble –…
Promoting Iraqi investigative journalism online
26.06.2012 The first of its kind in Iraq, the website of the Network for Iraqi Reporters for Investigative Journalism seeks to promote investigative journalism online and across language barriers Launched in mid-June in English, Arabic and Kurdish, the site contains investigations done by both aspiring and experienced Iraqi investigative journalists,…
Arab journalists meet for fifth investigative journalism conference
Over 300 journalists will meet in Cairo for the fifth annual investigative journalism conference. 22.11.2012 From 23-25 November, Cairo hosts the fifth annual conference for Arab Investigative journalists Over 300 Arab journalists and a number of international media experts are set to meet in Cairo to exchange expertise, skills and…
Journalism education in Iraq boosted with investigative specialisation
16.07.2012 As the first ever media education in Iraq, Baghdad University’s four-year journalism education is to expand with specialised training in investigative journalism Baghdad University Media College, the IMS-supported Network for Iraqi Reporters for Investigative Journalism, and IMS have agreed to jointly develop a new curriculum on investigative journalism. -…
Promoting Iraqi investigative journalism online
26.06.2012 The first of its kind in Iraq, the website of the Network for Iraqi Reporters for Investigative Journalism seeks to promote investigative journalism online and across language barriers Launched in mid-June in English, Arabic and Kurdish, the site contains investigations done by both aspiring and experienced Iraqi investigative journalists,…
Arab journalists meet for fifth investigative journalism conference
Over 300 journalists will meet in Cairo for the fifth annual investigative journalism conference. 22.11.2012 From 23-25 November, Cairo hosts the fifth annual conference for Arab Investigative journalists Over 300 Arab journalists and a number of international media experts are set to meet in Cairo to exchange expertise, skills and…
Journalism education in Iraq boosted with investigative specialisation
16.07.2012 As the first ever media education in Iraq, Baghdad University’s four-year journalism education is to expand with specialised training in investigative journalism Baghdad University Media College, the IMS-supported Network for Iraqi Reporters for Investigative Journalism, and IMS have agreed to jointly develop a new curriculum on investigative journalism. -…
NIRIJ Runs its First Training Workshop for Investigative Journalism Skills
The Network of the Iraqi Reporters for Investigative Journalism (NIRIJ) closed in early January 2012 its first training workshop which was held for introducing the art of investigating and the steps of performing a detailed and planned investigative report, depending on dealing with the report’s assumption and later indicating the…