Investigative Reports
Freely available weapons and a growing influence of non-state forces
Hawraa, a 32-year-old lawyer from Najaf, left the legal profession after practicing for nearly seven years. Her decision came after she was assaulted over a personal status lawsuit she was handling in 2022. Without a job, she turned to the cosmetics industry, which has since become her new source of income. She regretfully says, "I had ambitions to continue working in the profession I loved since childhood, but the risks surrounding our work, including the threat of death, have become too great. The state and its laws are powerless to protect us." Due to the widespread security chaos in Iraq…
Kwashi factories and refineries in Dohuk pollute the air and
A.M. (42 years old), who lives in the Bastaki residential complex north of Dohuk in the Kurdistan Region, is forced to close the windows of her house and the air cooler every evening, when primitive oil refineries operating nearby release their pollutants and fumes into the sky, carrying unpleasant odors. “It is unbearable,” the woman said angrily, pointing to the Kwashi industrial area. “We have been in this situation for years. it threatening us, but no one can stop it.” Environmental activist Idris Asahi (50 years old) warns of what he describes as “major environmental and health risks” created by…
Crude Oil Refineries Belonging to Influential People in Iraqi Kurdistan
“If thorough examinations were conducted on the region’s inhabitants, we would discover the extent of the catastrophe we are living in, with primitive refineries emitting their toxins day and night without any treatment.”
In oil-rich Basra; two worlds, two classes
Corruption, poverty and unemployment grapple Basra, Iraq’s richest city, as thousands suffer to make ends meet.
Basmaya’s sky is polluted… How do thousands of citizens live?
Abu Muhammad (45 years old), who lives in the Basmaya city, southeast of Baghdad, complains about the gas emissions emitted by the factories of the neighboring area of Abu Thila, which cover the sky of the city and its surroundings. Abu Muhammad, who works as a freelancer, suffers from shortness…
Due to cancerous diseases, a civil movement is about to
Residents of the neighborhoods surrounding the “Samawa Cement” factory, which has failed to implement environmental standards, have been complaining for several years about the spread of many diseases as a result of dust and gas emissions, which poses a permanent threat to their lives, especially after the expansion of its…
Four years after the Tishreen massacres.. The killer is free
Four years after the October 2019 demonstrations, which began to end the corruption system that brought a quarter of the country’s population to the brink of poverty, those involved in the killings escaped punishment, the database of victims disappeared, and the wounded continued to suffer in silence. “He sat in…
Sexual Harassment in Universities: Silence in Academic Campuses about the
The law is lenient and society often sees the victim as the perpetrator Shatha (30 years old, a pseudonym) entered a master’s program after excelling in her undergraduate studies at a university in Baghdad. While working as a teaching assistant and ranking among the top students, she initially believed achieving…
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…
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,…
Journalists in a Coffin, Killers on the Loose
In the course of about a decade, Mosul witnessed the assassination of some 82 journalists and media employees, not including the ones that disappeared at the hands of ISIS. “All cases of targeting and assassinating journalists in Nineveh until 2014 were registered against unknown persons, no criminals were ever identified.”
