2023
The plight of minorities in Iraq: violence, discrimination, and the
Some minorities are unrecognized, while others bear arms or resort to Taqiya (a precautionary dissimulation or denial of religious belief and practice) to ensure their security
11,000 families in the agony of waiting… What is the
Nawzat Shamdine – translated by Walaa Rayya Souad Ahmed (63 years old) spends hours of her day in her missing son's (Amjad) bedroom, talking to his pictures and smelling his clothes. Then she spreads her prayer mat on the floor, and with a crying voice, she prays for him to return to her, his wife, and his only son. These rituals have been a constant part of her life for nearly nine years. Amjad was a member of the local police before ISIS seized control of Mosul on June 10, 2014. He left with the withdrawing security forces towards Erbil,…
Suicide in Iraq … the Cover-Up for Femecide and a
Ahmad Al Rabihi and Hassan Al Nassiri / November 2020: 08.09.2The Iraqi police received a report recently of a bride’s suicide one day after her marriage, found hanging from a rope bound from the ceiling of her room … This investigation reveals the reasons for the escalation of suicides in Iraq, as well as how many murders of women end up recorded as suicides. On a sandalwood chair, in a small room at his grandmother’s house on the outskirts of al-Shatrah town, Ismael (29 years old) was found unconscious, his body bent over, with his head almost touching the ground. This…
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Iraqis face death at the Belarus border in search of
Nawazt Shamdin/ This investigation was published in Al Aalem Al Jadeed (The New World) website – Translated by Walaa Rayya About 10,000 migrants arrived in Belarus and wanted to cross to the European Union, most of them were stuck in forests in border areas surrounded by barbed wire between Belarus…
Displaced “Tishreen” (October) activists…between the desire to return and the
Hanan Salem / June 2022 In early 2020, Hussein Mahmoud fell into the “biggest taboo” when he called on social media for a protest against the Iraqi government in front of the house of Shiite cleric Ali al-Sistani in Najaf, intending to support the demands of tens of thousands…
Projects on paper: Iraq unable to cope with 300 days
h Iraq has included desertification in section 15 of its 2015-2030 strategic plan, seven years later there has been no indication that consecutive Iraqi governments have seriously considered implementing projects to combat it.
