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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…
Power struggle in Thi Qar met with reform protests
Protests erupt in Thi Qar over unemployment, corruption, and poor services.
Shafqat Al-Amel: Basra’s biggest squatter crisis
Largest informal settlement: Shafqat Al-Amel and 100,000 land encroachments in Basra
Al-Muthanna: Anti-corruption protests or factional power struggle?
Progress in Nineveh and Anbar highlights stark contrasts in southern governorates ravaged by corruption.
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…
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…
Displaced people from Salah al-Din are banned from returning
After ten years, Maytham (50 years old), a government employee, still lives far from his home in the Yathrib area in the Balad district (85 km north of Baghdad) after being displaced following the ISIS takeover of the area in June 2014. The ISIS left nine years ago, but the…
