Reports:

Hanan Salim

  • The deadly thirst: Iraqi Kurdistan is drying too! 

    Thirst is no longer confined to southern Iraq and its salty Basra. Even the mountains of Kurdistan, once described as the country’s water reservoir, are beginning to wither. Rivers are cut off, wells run dry, and villages are silently abandoned. This is drought creeping in relentlessly.

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  • The masculinity of society prevents girls from proving their existence.

    Every morning, Arouba, from the agricultural area of Swaib west of Baghdad, begins by milking her two cows, filling a few two-liter plastic containers with their milk, and then sending them with her little brother and a cousin to sell in the nearby Al-Rabi'a market. It's a routine she has been accustomed to since she was a small child, within boundaries drawn for her that she will never be able to surpass. She says this while petting one of the cows and adds, "I have no rights; I exist only to serve others." The Iraqi woman does not seem sad…

    Investigative Reports

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  • The other side of Kurdistan… 16 years of residents of

    Every morning, before heading to his job as a middle school physics teacher, Farhad Abdullah (48 years old) places several large empty plastic containers in his car trunk and drives two kilometers to the location of an artesian well on the outskirts of his town, Darbandikhan, in the Sulaymaniyah governorate, to fill them with water and return home to his family. He places the first container under the tap of a large white water tank next to the well, stating that what he does is a ritual he has been accustomed to for years. He raises his fingers: "It has…

    Investigative Reports

    Darbandikhan