tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11317617282277959372024-02-19T15:31:27.878+00:00تـضـا مـن TADHAMUNTadhamun (Solidarity)is an Iraqi women organization, encompasses many organisations and individuals
standing by Iraqi women's struggle against neo-colonial order, regional power hegemony and sectarian politics in Iraq. Striving for equal citizenship across ethnicities and religions, for human rights, and gender equality. جمعية تضامن تدعم المساواة في المواطنة بغض النظر عن الأنتماء الأثني أو الديني وتسعى من أجل العدالة الأجتماعية و حماية حقوق الأنسان في العراقUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger815125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131761728227795937.post-43360652401139161892021-06-08T15:59:00.003+01:002021-06-08T15:59:24.992+01:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">تسجيل ندوة مناضلات ينتصرن للحياة </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="481" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7ozEjCjwQIM" width="476" youtube-src-id="7ozEjCjwQIM"></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131761728227795937.post-80240253604775353922021-05-26T08:58:00.022+01:002021-05-30T00:40:07.429+01:00<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnsOAafndtdgHE4VIBK7g0uSYQ5IkxuSkHKfvNd3QMvJ-AfxXgxIJ_1ow76sTPJBboZfHBg2Qn6MlYedB0Sb4fbI-qY9XGaK-XCklhKwjubkhzgLxZhrpBJdohFUHmnPGbboOW1zVqJZo/s1754/Palestinian+women+3-page-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1754" data-original-width="1240" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnsOAafndtdgHE4VIBK7g0uSYQ5IkxuSkHKfvNd3QMvJ-AfxXgxIJ_1ow76sTPJBboZfHBg2Qn6MlYedB0Sb4fbI-qY9XGaK-XCklhKwjubkhzgLxZhrpBJdohFUHmnPGbboOW1zVqJZo/w452-h640/Palestinian+women+3-page-001.jpg" width="452" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; text-align: right; unicode-bidi: embed;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="AR-IQ"><span dir="RTL"></span><span dir="RTL"></span>" اذن نوبة تفتيش مفاجئة،
كالعادة قوات من السجانين والسجانات اقتحموا المكان ، بدأوا بتفتيش الغرف.
وصلوا غرفتنا يعبثون بكل شيء... انخلع قلبي من مكانه وهم يعبثون بحقيبتي اسفل
السرير، صادروا دفتر خرابيشي الواحد تلو الآخر".</span></span></b></p><p class="yiv0825492942MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="background-color: white; direction: rtl; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: right; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="AR-IQ"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">المشاركات </span></b></span></p><p class="yiv0825492942MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="background-color: white; direction: rtl; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: right; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="AR-IQ"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">مي الغصين: اعتقلت في سجون الاحتلال الصهيوني عام 1991 وتحررت 1997. حاصلة على دبلوم فنون جميلة. شاركت في معارض فنية عديدة. أم لطفلين. مقيمة في قرية بيت سيرا. ساهمت في كتاب " حفلة لثائرة: فلسطينيات يكتبن الحياة" - 2017 </span></b></span></p><p class="yiv0825492942MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="background-color: white; direction: rtl; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: right; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="AR-IQ"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">نادية الخياط: ولدت بالقدس وعملت مدرسة في قرية سيرا، قضاء رام الله. اعتقلت بداية 1979 وحكمت مؤبد وعشرين عاما. افرج عنها في عملية تبادل اسرى نهاية 1983. وتم ابعادها مدة 13 عاما. عادت الى الوطن في 1996 . درست الحقوق وعملت مستشارة في وزارة الاقتصاد. ساهمت في كتاب " " حفلة لثائرة: فلسطينيات يكتبن الحياة" - 2017 </span></b></span></p><p class="yiv0825492942MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="background-color: white; direction: rtl; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: right; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="AR-IQ"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">ابتسام أبو ميالة: ابتسام أبو ميالة كاتبة من الخليل، ولدت عام 1960 في مدينة البيرة الملاصقة لمدينة رام الله. تابعت دراستها بعد أن بلغت عامها الرابع والاربعين. أم لأربعة بنات وولدين وحصلت على دبلوم إدارة أعمال من كلية المستقبل التقنية. نشرت أربع روايات ومجموعة قصص للاطفال. تدير دورات كتابة ابداعية وقد تعاونت مع عدد من الاسيرات المحررات لكتابة تجاربهن في الأسر. </span></b></span></p><p class="yiv0825492942MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="background-color: white; direction: rtl; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: right; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span lang="AR-IQ"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">هناء ابراهيم: كاتبة وصحافية وناشطة حقوقية. شاركت في العمل النضالي الفلسطيني بداية السبعينات وعاشت وقائع ايلول الاسود في الأردن ولبنان. مديرة " منتدى المرأة الثقافي" ورئيسة " هيئة ارادة المرأة" بالاضافة الى كونها رئيسة تحرير صحيفة " عقول". </span></b></span></p><p class="yiv0825492942MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="background-color: white; direction: rtl; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8667px; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: right; unicode-bidi: embed;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span lang="AR-IQ"> </span><span dir="LTR"> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; text-align: right; unicode-bidi: embed;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="AR-IQ" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-IQ; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">عبر الزوم من لندن الى
رام الله وبلجيكا، ستناقش الكاتبات أهمية ان تكتب المرأة، المناضلة السياسية خاصة،
تجربتها</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> بنفسها. تدير الندوة الكاتبة هيفاء زنكنة.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; text-align: right; unicode-bidi: embed;"><b><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="AR-IQ" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-IQ; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">يوم الخميس المصادف 3
يونيو / حزيران. الساعة السادسة مساء بتوقيت لندن والثامنة مساء بتوقيت فلسطين
وبغداد. </span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="AR-IQ" style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-language: AR-IQ; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; text-align: right; unicode-bidi: embed;"><b><span dir="LTR" style="color: #006600; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-IQ;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" dir="RTL" style="direction: rtl; margin-right: 55.5pt; text-align: center; unicode-bidi: embed;"><b><span dir="LTR" style="color: #006600; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-IQ;">Passcode: 03062021</span></b><b><span dir="LTR" style="color: #c00000; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-IQ;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131761728227795937.post-67471194909095574682021-04-15T17:48:00.003+01:002021-04-16T00:22:52.510+01:00<p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "New Times", serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><b>Iraqi Music ... Of Land & People</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: "New Times", serif; font-size: 16px;">Fri 16th April at 6.00 pm GMT +1 </span></p><p style="text-align: center;">Organised </p><p style="text-align: center;">by </p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-size: medium;"><b>Tadhamun - Iraqi Women Solidarity </b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Iraq Solidarity Month 2021 Event</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "New Times", serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><a class="yiv5301968472oajrlxb2 yiv5301968472g5ia77u1 yiv5301968472qu0x051f yiv5301968472esr5mh6w yiv5301968472e9989ue4 yiv5301968472r7d6kgcz yiv5301968472rq0escxv yiv5301968472nhd2j8a9 yiv5301968472nc684nl6 yiv5301968472p7hjln8o yiv5301968472kvgmc6g5 yiv5301968472cxmmr5t8 yiv5301968472oygrvhab yiv5301968472hcukyx3x yiv5301968472jb3vyjys yiv5301968472rz4wbd8a yiv5301968472qt6c0cv9 yiv5301968472a8nywdso yiv5301968472i1ao9s8h yiv5301968472esuyzwwr yiv5301968472f1sip0of yiv5301968472lzcic4wl yiv5301968472py34i1dx yiv5301968472gpro0wi8" href="https://youtu.be/ENS4zlrEsNg?fbclid=IwAR2pr6qzrmaQp2S3zfUG3tMBarviekoyD5UhnJubL082fZX8AkzOdDlpMg8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; border-width: 0px; color: #196ad4; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: "New Times", serif; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/ENS4zlrEsNg</a></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "New Times", serif;">While over the centuries civilizations flourished and died in a long succession along the banks of Tigris and Euphrates, music never lost its important function in the day to day life of Iraqi people.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "New Times", serif; font-size: 16px;">An age - old heritage of great variety has been accumulated and preserved in the form of folk and religious music. Almost every region along the two rivers kept its own style of country music.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "New Times", serif; font-size: 16px;">Samplings of the richness of Iraqi music are introduced by :</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "New Times", serif; font-size: 16px;">Salim: Vocalist</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "New Times", serif; font-size: 16px;">Francesco Iannuzzelli: Oud</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "New Times", serif; font-size: 16px;">Azad Zangana: Percussions</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "New Times", serif; text-align: left;"><div class="yiv5301968472ecm0bbzt yiv5301968472hv4rvrfc yiv5301968472ihqw7lf3 yiv5301968472dati1w0a" style="padding: 4px 16px 16px;"><div class="yiv5301968472j83agx80 yiv5301968472cbu4d94t yiv5301968472ew0dbk1b yiv5301968472irj2b8pg" style="display: flex;"><div class="yiv5301968472qzhwtbm6 yiv5301968472knvmm38d" style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="yiv5301968472d2edcug0 yiv5301968472hpfvmrgz yiv5301968472qv66sw1b yiv5301968472c1et5uql yiv5301968472lr9zc1uh yiv5301968472a8c37x1j yiv5301968472keod5gw0 yiv5301968472nxhoafnm yiv5301968472aigsh9s9 yiv5301968472d3f4x2em yiv5301968472fe6kdd0r yiv5301968472mau55g9w yiv5301968472c8b282yb yiv5301968472iv3no6db yiv5301968472gfeo3gy3 yiv5301968472a3bd9o3v yiv5301968472knj5qynh yiv5301968472oo9gr5id yiv5301968472hzawbc8m" style="display: block; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px;"><div class="yiv5301968472o9v6fnle yiv5301968472cxmmr5t8 yiv5301968472oygrvhab yiv5301968472hcukyx3x yiv5301968472c1et5uql yiv5301968472ii04i59q" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px;"><div style="font-size: 16px;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">الموسيقى العراقية ... صوت الشعب والارض</span></b></div></div><div class="yiv5301968472o9v6fnle yiv5301968472cxmmr5t8 yiv5301968472oygrvhab yiv5301968472hcukyx3x yiv5301968472c1et5uql yiv5301968472ii04i59q" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px;"><div><b><span style="color: #38761d;">أمسية موسيقية افتراضية . ستتم الساعة السادسة مساء الجمعة 16 ابريل . لحضورها اضغط على الرابط ادناه:</span></b></div><div><a class="yiv5301968472oajrlxb2 yiv5301968472g5ia77u1 yiv5301968472qu0x051f yiv5301968472esr5mh6w yiv5301968472e9989ue4 yiv5301968472r7d6kgcz yiv5301968472rq0escxv yiv5301968472nhd2j8a9 yiv5301968472nc684nl6 yiv5301968472p7hjln8o yiv5301968472kvgmc6g5 yiv5301968472cxmmr5t8 yiv5301968472oygrvhab yiv5301968472hcukyx3x yiv5301968472jb3vyjys yiv5301968472rz4wbd8a yiv5301968472qt6c0cv9 yiv5301968472a8nywdso yiv5301968472i1ao9s8h yiv5301968472esuyzwwr yiv5301968472f1sip0of yiv5301968472lzcic4wl yiv5301968472py34i1dx yiv5301968472gpro0wi8" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FENS4zlrEsNg%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2cvKbbLCFRPohtuPzIscHEZMkTNnlDmAqhr0awPDnG79_iAygYbr8PJA4&h=AT1p1-7QCJeI_VT8uJB5Os37mhN-WmnNf8mNiYAIJ5uohIJgVvsWdobjbv2PfaxlqKCGA-p0QKq_DyDvnpPNReZbvBbW8RafTUUgkLdJe7Jl7tyFpqjZJItiHeqMrMDfZg&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT1edB7RJnShoRS1FRQ57x3xh3B5r-q1ke9lZLX392iQMycPv7xw4eeNok3Qi-qF7YEpbOWv_NQ3AhdgWs_1VeejALAlgUVhbHMRmHKWfGSNxoKOqbcsu-iIqcJXpuvDPdXu" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="border-width: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none;" tabindex="0" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">https://youtu.be/ENS4zlrEsNg</span></b></a></div></div><div class="yiv5301968472o9v6fnle yiv5301968472cxmmr5t8 yiv5301968472oygrvhab yiv5301968472hcukyx3x yiv5301968472c1et5uql yiv5301968472ii04i59q" style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px;"><div><b><span style="color: #38761d;">لم تفقد الموسيقى يوما مكانتها المهمة في حياة العراقيين، سواء كانوا في المدن أو الارياف، وعلى الرغم من ازدهار واندثار الحضارات، في تعاقب طويل، على ضفاف دجلة والفرات.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #38761d;">فتراكَمَ للعراق تراث بعيد الغور، شديد التنويع، وكان هذا التراث يُحفظ في أوقات التدهور، باشكال من الموسيقى الدينية والفولكلورية. وتحتفظ كل منطقة في ارجاء البلاد باسلوبها العريق الخاص.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #38761d;">في هذه الامسية سنستمع الى نماذج موسيقية وغنائية تجمع بين القديم والجديد، بأداء:</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #38761d;">غناء: سليم</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #38761d;">عزف على العود: فرانشيسكو ايانوزيلي</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #38761d;">ايقاع: آزاد زنكنة</span></b></div></div></span></div></div></div></div><div class="yiv5301968472l9j0dhe7" style="background-color: white; 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color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131761728227795937.post-2961258431014199482021-04-03T11:43:00.006+01:002021-04-05T21:20:51.175+01:00<span data-offset-key="cusmt-0-0" face=""Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; text-align: right; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true" style="font-family: inherit;">بمناسبة شهر التضامن مع العراق
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يوم الخميس 8 نيسان / أبريل الساعة السادسة والنصف مساء بتوقيت لندن، الساعة الثامنة والنصف مساء بتوقيت بغداد
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<a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-museum-bp-sponsorship-protest-iraq-kurds-assyria-a8783021.html">Hundreds protest against BP sponsorship of British Museum exhibition</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131761728227795937.post-1094625581432335292018-04-09T22:32:00.000+01:002018-04-09T22:32:17.676+01:00Iraq Solidarity Month - Thursday 26 April 2018 London SOAS 7:00PM<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Tadhamun (Iraqi Women Solidarity) public meeting</span></b></div>
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decision to invade Iraq in 2003, premised on the lie that Iraq possessed
weapons of mass destruction, has destabilised and polarised the world to a greater
extent than any other conflict in history”.</span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
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who demonstrated across the globe against the war on Iraq in 2003 and continues
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<span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Haifa Zangana, </span><b><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Author-Journalist</span></b><span lang="EN-ZW" style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">In early February, Human Rights Watch published <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/02/08/kurdistan-regional-government-allegations-mass-executions" style="transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;"><span style="color: #0b81c3; text-decoration-line: none;">evidence
suggesting Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) security forces carried out mass
executions</span></a> of possibly hundreds of Islamic State (also known as
ISIS) suspects who surrendered to military forces in August 2017. The <a href="https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/supporting_resources/krg_response_march42018.pdf" style="transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;"><span style="color: #0b81c3; text-decoration-line: none;">KRG has
responded with a 24 page denial</span></a> of our findings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/03/26/rush-judgment-iraq-harms-justice">https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/03/26/rush-judgment-iraq-harms-justice</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rush to Judgment in Iraq Harms Justice</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Show Trials, Collective Punishment a Flawed Response to ISIS
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">These atrocities demand justice, but the Iraqi government has so
far relied on the heavy hand. It has reportedly detained at least 19,000
people for alleged ISIS ties and Iraqi courts have sentenced more than
3,000 people to death. The trials have been rushed and deeply flawed,
including confessions apparently after torture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Iraqi
authorities have forced families with relatives suspected of being ISIS members into prison
camps. They have destroyed some of their homes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Protesters, Journalists Detained<o:p></o:p></div>
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Freedom of Assembly Suppressed (Beirut) – Kurdistan Regional Government
security forces detained participants in December 2017 protests around
Sulaymaniyah and forced them to sign statements promising not to criticize the
government.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The detained protesters were held for up to eight days
without being taken before a judge and were forced, before being released, to
sign commitments not to protest or be critical of the government on social
media. The KRG’s Asayish forces also detained three journalists who were
covering protests, apparently for their work.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Kurdistan Region of Iraq: 350 Prisoners ‘Disappeared’<o:p></o:p></div>
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Families Seek Whereabouts After Iraqi Takeover of Kirkuk</div>
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Those missing are mainly Sunni Arabs, displaced to Kirkuk or
residents of the city, detained by the regional government’s security forces,
the Asayish, on suspicion of Islamic State (also known as ISIS) affiliation
after the regional forces took control of Kirkuk in June 2014. Local officials
told Human Rights Watch that the prisoners were no longer in the official and
unofficial detention facilities in and around Kirkuk when Iraqi federal forces
regained control of the area on October 16, 2017.</div>
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<a href="https://www.hrw.org/report/2017/12/05/flawed-justice/accountability-isis-crimes-iraq">https://www.hrw.org/report/2017/12/05/flawed-justice/accountability-isis-crimes-iraq</a></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "garamond" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">The judiciaries of the Iraqi government and the KRG are relying
on their respective counterterrorism courts to rapidly prosecute all of these
ISIS suspects on charges brought under their counterterrorism laws, primarily
and often exclusively on the charge of membership in ISIS, with no distinction
made for the severity of the charges brought against suspects and no effort to
prioritize the prosecution of the worst offenses. One Iraqi judge at the
Nineveh counterterrorism court, which is mandated to prosecute ISIS members
captured in Mosul, said that between February and late August 2017, the court
had commenced trials against 5,500 ISIS suspects, and convicted and sentenced
at least 200.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rights Watch knows of at least 7,374 individuals that the Iraqi and KRG
judiciaries are trying or have convicted and in 92 cases already executed since
2014, while recognizing that this represents a fraction of the total number of
individuals held as ISIS suspects.</span></div>
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(Erbil) – <a href="https://www.hrw.org/middle-east/n-africa/iraq" style="background: transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;">Iraqi</a> forces have forcibly displaced at least 125 families said to have familial ties to affiliates of the Islamic State (also known as ISIS), Human Rights Watch said today. </div>
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Sunni tribal groups (known as the <em style="background-color: transparent;">Hashad al</em><em style="background-color: transparent;">-</em><em style="background-color: transparent;">Asha</em>'<em style="background-color: transparent;">ri</em>), within the Popular Mobilization Forces (known as the PMF or Hashd al-Sha'abi), which are under the control of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, and Iraqi soldiers forced the families out of their homes following the passage of a decree issued by local authorities. The families, all from Salah al-Din governorate, are being held against their will in a camp functioning as an open-air prison near Tikrit. The PMF also destroyed some of the families’ homes.</div>
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“While politicians in Baghdad are discussing reconciliation efforts in Iraq, the state’s own forces are undermining those efforts by destroying homes and forcing families into a detention camp,” said <a href="https://www.hrw.org/about/people/lama-fakih" style="background: transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;">Lama Fakih</a>, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. “These families, accused of wrongdoing by association, are in many cases themselves victims of ISIS abuses and should be protected by government forces, not targeted for retribution.”</div>
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The fighting has moved from neighborhood to neighborhood, often <a href="http://www.euronews.com/2017/01/03/elite-iraqi-forces-advance-in-mosul-fighting-street-to-street-against-isil" style="background: transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;" target="_blank">street by street</a>. Iraqi forces on the ground were backed by Iraqi and coalition aircraft. The Islamic State (ISIS) used improvised landmines and suicide car bombers. By late January, the Iraqi forces controlled the eastern part of the city; in mid-February they launched operations to retake the western half.</div>
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When the fighting began, about <a href="http://www.unhcr.org/news/latest/2016/8/57bc3a6d4/unhcr-prepares-massive-displacement-iraqs-mosul.html" style="background: transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;" target="_blank">1.2 million</a> civilians were in Mosul. Since then, at least 175,000 have <a href="http://iraqdtm.iom.int/EmergencyTracking.aspx" style="background: transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;" target="_blank">fled</a> their homes to seek refuge in government-controlled areas. Iraqi authorities have <a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/973bb50b776c4d6d8e7ce580f194c858/iraqi-forces-eye-tougher-fight-mosuls-west%20http:/bigstory.ap.org/article/973bb50b776c4d6d8e7ce580f194c858/iraqi-forces-eye-tougher-fight-mosuls-west" style="background: transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;" target="_blank">reported</a> that more than 5,200 civilians have been <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_IRAQ_MOSUL_CASUALTIES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" style="background: transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;" target="_blank">killed</a> or wounded inside Mosul since the military operation began. The Iraqi forces have taken measures to protect civilians, but casualties have been high.</div>
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In January, my colleagues and I interviewed dozens of residents in eastern Mosul who had remained in their homes as the fighting shifted to their neighborhoods. They shared horrific stories.</div>
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Although accounts of gender-based violence have emerged from areas under ISIS control, these are the first cases against Sunni Arab women in Iraq that Human Rights Watch has been able to document. Researchers interviewed six women in Kirkuk, to which they had escaped from the town of Hawija, 125 kilometers south of Mosul and still under ISIS control. Human Rights Watch and <a href="http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=20113&LangID=E" style="background: transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;">others</a> have extensively <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/04/14/iraq-isis-escapees-describe-systematic-rape" style="background: transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;">documented similar abuses by ISIS fighters</a> against Yezidi women.</div>
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“Little is known about sexual abuse against Sunni Arab women living under ISIS rule,” said <a href="https://www.hrw.org/about/people/lama-fakih" style="background: transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;">Lama Fakih</a>, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. “We hope that the international community and local authorities will do all they can to give this group of victims the support they need.”</div>
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In January 2017, Human Rights Watch interviewed four women who said they had been detained by ISIS in 2016, for periods between three days and a month. Another woman said an ISIS fighter, her cousin, forced her to marry him and then raped her. A sixth woman said that ISIS fighters destroyed her home as punishment after her husband escaped ISIS and tried to forcibly marry her. Five of the six women said that ISIS fighters beat them.</div>
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(Erbil) – Armed forces fighting Islamic State (also known as ISIS) to retake a town and four villages near <a href="https://www.hrw.org/middle-east/n-africa/iraq" style="background: transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;" target="_blank">Mosul</a> looted, damaged, and destroyed homes, Human Rights Watch said today. There was no apparent military necessity for the demolitions, which may amount to war crimes and which took place between November 2016 and February 2017.</div>
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The Iraqi authorities should investigate allegations of war crimes and hold those responsible to account, Human Rights Watch said. The <a href="https://www.hrw.org/united-states" style="background: transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;" target="_blank">United States</a> and other countries providing military assistance to the Iraqi Security Forces should press the government to carry out these investigations. The United Nations Human Rights Council should expand the investigation it established in 2014 on ISIS abuses to include serious violations by all parties, including the Popular Mobilization Forces (known as the PMF or Hashd al-Sha'abi), units that were formed largely to combat ISIS, and are under the direct command of Prime Minister al-Abadi. “Absent a legitimate military objective, there is no excuse for destroying civilian homes,” said <a href="https://www.hrw.org/about/people/lama-fakih" style="background: transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;" target="_blank">Lama Fakih</a>, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. “All the destruction does is to keep civilians from going home.” Read <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/02/16/iraq-looting-destruction-forces-fighting-isis" target="_blank">more</a></div>
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Field research and detailed expert analysis of photographic and video evidence since June 2014 has found that the Iraqi militias have benefited from the transfers of arms - manufactured in at least 16 countries. The militias that comprise the “Popular Mobilisation Units” (PMU) deploy more than 100 types of arms - from heavy weapons such as tanks and artillery, as well as a wide range of small arms, including standard-issue Kalashnikov and M-16 automatic rifles, machine guns, handguns and sniper rifles. These predominantly Shia militias have used the arms to carry out the enforced disappearance and abduction of thousands of mainly Sunni men and boys, as well as committing extrajudicial executions, acts of torture and the wanton destruction of property (see examples below).</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131761728227795937.post-43108884616579285612017-03-05T18:40:00.001+00:002017-03-05T19:14:05.419+00:00Mosul, Iraq: injured and traumatised children caught up in a gathering 'humanitarian crisis'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Countless children have been left scarred and deeply traumatised by the extreme violence they have experienced and witnessed. In a hospital in Erbil, capital of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government, Amnesty spoke to Umm Ashraf, who described how she and her seven children were injured when a car bomb exploded outside the house where they were sheltering in east Mosul on 13 December, burying scores of people under the rubble of several houses destroyed in the blast. Her eldest daughter, 17-year-old Shahad, lost both her eyes in the attack. </div>
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“Our homes have become our children’s graves. My neighbours are still buried under the rubble; no one has been able to dig them out. I dragged my wounded children from under the rubble one by one. But my sister was killed, I could not help her. My neighbour was decapitated in the blast, so many others killed.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131761728227795937.post-37558550030914737762017-03-04T21:02:00.000+00:002017-03-04T21:02:09.430+00:00Amnesty International report 2016/7<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Prime Minister al-Abadi issued Order 91 in February and Parliament passed a law in November designating the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), established in June 2014 and comprising mostly Shi’a paramilitary militias, as a “military formation and part of the Iraqi armed forces”.</div>
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Paramilitary militias and government forces committed war crimes and other violations of international humanitarian law and human rights law, mostly against members of the Sunni Arab community. They carried out extrajudicial executions, other unlawful killings and torture, forcibly disappeared hundreds of men and boys, and deliberately destroyed homes and property.</div>
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Following a suicide bombing that killed 27 men and injured 41 others in Muqdadiya on 11 January, militias carried out revenge attacks against the Sunni community, abducting and killing dozens of men and burning and destroying Sunni mosques, shops and other property.</div>
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On 3 June, PMU militias abducted an estimated 1,300 men and boys fleeing Saqlawiya, north of Falluja. Three days later, 605 men reappeared bearing marks of torture, while the fate of 643 remained unknown. An investigative committee established by the Governor of Anbar found that 49 had been killed by being shot, tortured or burned to death. On 30 May, at least 12 men and four boys who were fleeing al-Sijir, north of Falluja, were extrajudicially executed. Prime Minister al-Abadi established a committee to investigate abuses, but the authorities did not disclose any outcome or report any criminal process against the perpetrators.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131761728227795937.post-16817526133850203342016-07-10T17:29:00.001+01:002016-07-10T17:29:42.738+01:00report on event:Iraqi IDPs – Fragmentation of National and Cultural Identity – an event organised by Tadhamun (Iraqi Women Solidarity)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Iraqi IDPs – Fragmentation of National and Cultural Identity – an event organised by Tadhamun (Iraqi Women Solidarity)</h1>
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“To be liberated, cities are obliterated,” Professor Mundher Al-Adhami – the first speaker of the afternoon – said of Ramadi and Fallujah, where “nobody has gone back”.</div>
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The US and UK had failed to acknowledge Iraqis’ suffering, he added, describing Iraq as a “bad story” which they “don’t want to talk about”.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131761728227795937.post-43089321051064588082016-07-10T17:22:00.002+01:002016-07-10T17:24:23.266+01:00 Iraqis mourn Karrada amid anger at political establishment<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Undetected by state forces, terrorists ploughed a refrigerated truck
carrying explosives into the densely populated well-to-do district of
al-Karrada in central Baghdad. “People came to buy clothes to celebrate
Eid. Now they are buying coffins,” one survivor lamented.<br />
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the latest attack in a long series that IS has launched against
civilians – both Shia and Sunni – in Bangladesh, Turkey, and most
recently Saudi Arabia. Their violence respects no faith.<br />
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series of fires the explosion ignited converged into a firestorm,
ravaging two shopping arcades in the commercial centre. Bodies recovered
from beneath the rubble were burned beyond recognition – sons
unidentifiable to their mothers. Hadi mall, consumed head-to-toe by the
inferno, was not designed with fire escape routes in mind, as Iraqi
analyst Sajad Jiyad wrote in his <a href="https://sjiyad.wordpress.com/2016/07/05/the-flames-that-consumed-hope/" target="_blank">blog-post</a>.
“There were no emergency exits, the door to the roof was welded shut”
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buildings dotted around Baghdad, no official statements on the subject
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131761728227795937.post-90169627214416937402016-07-10T17:09:00.002+01:002016-07-10T17:14:02.524+01:00Up to 900 refugees from Fallujah feared dead after being kidnapped by anti-Isis militia in Iraq<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Up to 900 men and boys who fled their homes near Isis’ former stronghold of <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/fallujah" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ec1a2e; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Fallujah </a>remain missing in Iraq after being abducted by a militia accused of torturing, shooting and beheading civilians.</div>
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The United Nations said captives who have since been freed by the paramilitary group reported a litany of war crimes and atrocities after they sought refuge from battles between <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/isis" style="background: 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ec1a2e; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Isis </a>and Iraqi forces last month.</div>
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Those abducted had been among 8,000 civilians who fled the village of Saqlawiyah, north of Fallujah, as fighting intensified on 1 June.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131761728227795937.post-15358053241145890602016-07-10T17:09:00.001+01:002016-07-10T17:10:30.400+01:00Fallujah Abuses Inquiry Mired in Secrecy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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On June 4, 2016, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi <a href="http://www.alhurra.com/a/iraq-fallujah-human-rights/308810.html" style="background: transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;">opened an investigation</a> into allegations of abuse and three days later <a href="http://www.alsumaria.tv/news/170547" style="background: transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;">announced unspecified arrests</a> and the “transfer of those accused of committing violations to the judiciary to receive their punishment according to the law.” Government officials, however, have not provided information in response to Human Rights Watch inquiries since mid-June about the status of the investigation, who is conducting it, or steps taken so far.</div>
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“Failing to hold fighters and commanders accountable for grave abuses bodes very badly for the looming battle for Mosul,” said <a href="https://www.hrw.org/about/people/joe-stork" style="background: transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;">Joe Stork</a>, deputy Middle East director. “Serious investigations and prosecutions are essential to provide justice to victims and their families, and to deter atrocities by government forces.”</div>
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تكتُّم على سير التحقيقات في انتهاكات الفلوجة</h1>
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انتهاكات جديدة تكّذب التوصيف الأمريكي بأنها "فظائع معزولة</div>
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في 4 يونيو<span dir="LTR" style="unicode-bidi: embed;">/</span>تموز 2016، <a href="http://www.alhurra.com/a/iraq-fallujah-human-rights/308810.html" style="background: transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;">فتح</a> رئيس الوزراء حيدر العبادي تحقيقا في مزاعم سوء المعاملة و<a href="http://www.alsumaria.tv/news/170547" style="background: transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;">أعلن</a> بعد 3 أيام عن اعتقالات غير محددة و"إحالة المتهمين بارتكاب تجاوزات إلى القضاء لينالوا جزاءهم وفق القانون". لكن المسؤولين الحكوميين لم يقدموا المعلومات ردا على استفسارات هيومن رايتس ووتش منذ منتصف يونيو/حزيران بشأن وضع التحقيق، من يُجريه، أو الخطوات المُتخذة حتى الآن<span dir="LTR" style="unicode-bidi: embed;">.</span></div>
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قال <a href="https://www.hrw.org/ar/about/people/222503" style="background: transparent; color: #0b81c3; text-decoration: none; transition-duration: 0.4s; transition-property: color, background-color;">جو ستورك</a>، نائب مدير قسم الشرق الأوسط: "الإخفاق في مساءلة المقاتلين والقادة عن الانتهاكات الجسيمة يُنذر بأخطار في معركة الموصل. التحقيقات والملاحقات القضائية الجادة ضرورية لتوفير العدالة للضحايا وأُسَرهم، وردع القوات الحكومية عن ارتكاب الفظائع".</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131761728227795937.post-52853122932396375402016-05-08T16:46:00.001+01:002016-05-08T16:48:07.537+01:00Iraq: 1,000 detainees held in 'shocking' conditions in makeshift holding centres in Anbar<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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More than 1,000 detainees, including some as young as 15, are being held without charge in horrendous conditions at makeshift holding centres in Anbar governorate, west of Baghdad, said Amnesty International today.</div>
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An Amnesty delegation led by the organisation’s Secretary General Salil Shetty gained access on 30 April to a centre run by Anbar’s counter-terrorism agency (Mukafahat al-Irhab) in Ameriyat al-Fallujah, where 683 male detainees are held without charge. The detainees are crammed into several rooms within a complex of disused warehouses being used as a detention and interrogation facility.</div>
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“It was a truly shocking sight - hundreds of human beings packed together like sardines in a tin and held in inhumane and degrading conditions for months on end.</div>
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“The detainees are squeezed into a space of less than one square metre each, sitting in a crouching position day and night, unable to stretch or lie down to sleep and are rarely allowed outside for fresh air."<br />
<a href="https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/iraq-1000-detainees-held-shocking-conditions-makeshift-holding-centres-anbar">read statement in full</a></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131761728227795937.post-57586931234519600522016-05-02T13:52:00.001+01:002016-05-02T13:52:10.755+01:00Equality and justice not luxuries but crucial foundations of stability<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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GENEVA
(25 April 2016) – Iraq must immediately take concrete steps to plan for
“the day after” the defeat of ISIL, grounded in equality, the rule of
law and a vision that has earned the confidence of all the country’s
diverse communities, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Kate
Gilmore urged today, at the end of a week-long visit to Iraq.</div>
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“Iraq, it seems, has a long memory but is short on
vision,” Gilmore said. “It is like a vehicle travelling over rocky
terrain, with a large rearview mirror but only a keyhole for a
windscreen, despite a vicious contest for the wheel. The dominant
narrative among many of Iraq’s leaders is of ‘my community’s grievance’,
failing to acknowledge the widespread nature of Iraqis’ suffering and
failing to chart a course for an inclusive future.”</div>
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“Iraqis are crying out for fairness, recognition,
justice, appreciation and meaningful participation in shaping their
future – a process that goes forward and not backwards.” </div>
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“All the leaders of Iraq, at every level, in both word
and action, need to demonstrate a far greater commitment to peace,
equality and to the rule of law than to grievances or to vengeance
hardwired by sectarianism. There is a worrying absence of a political
narrative that brings together all the diverse communities in Iraq, a
narrative that includes all the minority communities. This must be
urgently addressed,” she added.</div>
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GENEVA
(25 April 2016) – Iraq must immediately take concrete steps to plan for
“the day after” the defeat of ISIL, grounded in equality, the rule of
law and a vision that has earned the confidence of all the country’s
diverse communities, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Kate
Gilmore urged today, at the end of a week-long visit to Iraq.</div>
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“Iraq, it seems, has a long memory but is short on
vision,” Gilmore said. “It is like a vehicle travelling over rocky
terrain, with a large rearview mirror but only a keyhole for a
windscreen, despite a vicious contest for the wheel. The dominant
narrative among many of Iraq’s leaders is of ‘my community’s grievance’,
failing to acknowledge the widespread nature of Iraqis’ suffering and
failing to chart a course for an inclusive future.”</div>
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“Iraqis are crying out for fairness, recognition,
justice, appreciation and meaningful participation in shaping their
future – a process that goes forward and not backwards.” </div>
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“All the leaders of Iraq, at every level, in both word
and action, need to demonstrate a far greater commitment to peace,
equality and to the rule of law than to grievances or to vengeance
hardwired by sectarianism. There is a worrying absence of a political
narrative that brings together all the diverse communities in Iraq, a
narrative that includes all the minority communities. This must be
urgently addressed,” she added.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">GENEVA (25 April 2016) – Iraq must immediately take concrete steps to plan for “the day after” the defeat of ISIL, grounded in equality, the rule of law and a vision that has earned the confidence of all the country’s diverse communities, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Kate Gilmore urged today, at the end of a week-long visit to Iraq.</span><br />
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“Iraq, it seems, has a long memory but is short on vision,” Gilmore said. “It is like a vehicle travelling over rocky terrain, with a large rearview mirror but only a keyhole for a windscreen, despite a vicious contest for the wheel. The dominant narrative among many of Iraq’s leaders is of ‘my community’s grievance’, failing to acknowledge the widespread nature of Iraqis’ suffering and failing to chart a course for an inclusive future.”</div>
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“Iraqis are crying out for fairness, recognition, justice, appreciation and meaningful participation in shaping their future – a process that goes forward and not backwards.”</div>
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“All the leaders of Iraq, at every level, in both word and action, need to demonstrate a far greater commitment to peace, equality and to the rule of law than to grievances or to vengeance hardwired by sectarianism. There is a worrying absence of a political narrative that brings together all the diverse communities in Iraq, a narrative that includes all the minority communities. This must be urgently addressed,” she added.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131761728227795937.post-66617704597799670782016-05-02T13:32:00.004+01:002016-05-02T13:32:38.028+01:00HRW: Protecting Civilians Key to Mosul Battle<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Beirut – <a href="https://www.hrw.org/middle-east/n-africa/iraq">Iraqi</a>
government forces gearing up to drive Islamic State fighters from Mosul
should prioritize protection of civilians. Hundreds of thousands of
civilians remain in Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, which the
extremist group Islamic State, also known as ISIS, took control of in
June 2014.<br />
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ISIS and pro-government forces both have records of harming civilians during and after military operations. The <a href="https://www.hrw.org/united-states">United States</a>, <a href="https://www.hrw.org/middle-east/n-africa/iran">Iran</a>, <a href="https://www.hrw.org/europe/central-asia/germany">Germany</a>,
and other states providing military support to Iraq should condition
their support on scrupulous respect for the laws of war, which prohibit
attacks that disproportionately harm civilians or fail to distinguish
civilians and civilian objects from military objectives.<br />
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“Protecting civilians from needless harm needs to be paramount in any battle for control of Mosul,” said <a href="https://www.hrw.org/about/people/joe-stork">Joe Stork</a>,
deputy Middle East director. “It’s essential for the Iraq government to
exercise effective command and control over all its forces, and for
allies like the US and Iran to make sure they do so.”<br />
Human Rights Watch has, since 2014, documented laws of war violations by the <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/07/22/iraq-civilian-toll-government-airstrikes">Iraqi</a> <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/05/27/iraq-government-attacking-fallujah-hospital">military</a>
and the largely Shia militias that make up the Iraqi government’s
Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), and by Kurdish Peshmerga fighters
fighting ISIS, including <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/06/02/dispatches-fighting-good-fight-iraq">summary executions</a>, <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/09/20/iraq-militia-abuses-mar-fight-against-isis">disappearances</a>, <a href="https://www.hrw.org/node/281164">torture</a>, use of <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/10/30/no-childs-play-kids-fighting-one-another-iraq-conflict">child soldiers</a>, widespread <a href="https://www.hrw.org/node/281164">building demolition</a>, <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/01/13/iraq-ethnic-fighting-endangers-civilians">indiscriminate</a> <a href="file:///C:/Users/nanandchristoph/Downloads/UNAMI-OHCHR__POC_Report_FINAL_01_May-31_October_2015_FINAL_11Jan2016%20%281%29.pdf">attacks</a>, and unlawful <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/05/29/iraq-curbs-put-wars-displaced-risk">restrictions</a> on the <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/02/25/iraqi-kurdistan-arabs-displaced-cordoned-detained">movement</a> of people fleeing the fighting.<br />
Human Rights Watch also called on ISIS forces to respect the laws of war, and in particular to allow <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/04/07/iraq-fallujah-siege-starving-population">civilians to leave</a> areas under their control, not to <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/07/middleeast/isis-human-shield-mosul/">use civilians to shield</a> its military objectives from <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/31/middleeast/iraq-ramadi-human-shields/index.html">attack</a>, and not to use <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/10/30/no-childs-play-kids-fighting-one-another-iraq-conflict">child soldiers</a>.<br />
In mid-March 2016, the Iraqi army opened a ground offensive from the
town of Makhmur, in Erbil governorate, toward Qayyara, 70 kilometers
south of Mosul, but one month later, only a few nearby villages had been
<a href="https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/reportsfeatures/566811-iraqi-armys-first-mosul-operation-bogs-down">captured</a>. The US-led <a href="http://www.defense.gov/News-Article-View/Article/720245/coalition-focuses-on-dismantling-fragmenting-isil-oir-spokesman-says">coalition</a> has conducted aerial attacks on ISIS and <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pentagon-may-open-more-small-iraq-outposts/">advises</a> local forces on ground attacks. Germany <a href="http://www.einsatz.bundeswehr.de/portal/a/einsatzbw/%21ut/p/c4/LYvBCoMwEET_KBuLYOnN4KXXHmrTS1nNIktjIulaQfrxTcAZGJh5DDwhO-CXJxSOAT08wI58GTY1bI5exOGDsueKb1nJ-2Mi2Qn6cnakxhhISgoF4ZxTQolJLTGJL2RNKRPFDqyuOlM1tT5U_dramvO9Oenuam6wzHP7BxmckH0%21/">leads</a> a training center for Kurdish forces and provides them with <a href="http://www.n-tv.de/politik/Kurden-bekommen-Tausende-G36-Gewehre-article16596601.html">weapons</a>. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps provides military <a href="file:///C:/Users/User/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.Outlook/A9UGUTKZ/irgc%20iran%20iraq%20war">advisors</a> to Iraq.<br />
With a political stand-off in Baghdad over the nomination of new
government ministers, Human Rights Watch called on Iraq’s international
supporters to use their leverage with political and military leaders in
Iraq to ensure civilian protection and compliance with the laws of war.<br />
Popular Mobilization Forces officials have said their forces would be at the <a href="http://www.alalam.ir/news/1801907">forefront</a> of the campaign against ISIS in Mosul, and the Peshmerga also <a href="http://rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/211020152">vowed</a>
to participate. Speaking to Human Rights Watch in Baghdad in late
March, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy head of the Popular
Mobilization Commission overseeing the PMF, was clear that he expected
his forces would participate in the battle for Mosul.<br />
In late February 2016, Atheel al-Nujaifi, the former governor of Nineveh, who has his own militia, <a href="http://skypressiq.net/13071--.html">warned</a> that local residents would rise up against the PMF if they participated. On April 11, Iraqi pollster Munqith Dagher presented <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/04/11/why-iraqis-living-under-the-islamic-state-fear-their-liberators/">results</a>
from one survey in which “of the 120 Sunni respondents in Mosul, 100
percent do not want to be liberated by Shiite militias or the Kurds.”<br />
The Popular Mobilization Commission has increased its capacity to
ensure compliance with the laws of war, its spokesperson Yusif al-Kilabi
told Human Rights Watch in late March in Baghdad. Al-Kilabi said the
commission set up a Directorate for Security and Discipline, with 20
staff lawyers providing training on the laws of war and 100 liaison
officers who accompany PMF forces in the field.<br />
Judge Abd al-Sattar Bir Qadar, spokesperson for the High Judicial
Council, told Human Rights Watch that he had recently sent judges to
process detainees the PMF had taken on the battlefield following the
Jazira campaign in March. Bir Qadar added that the judiciary also held
PMF members accountable under civilian law, with 300 PMF members charged
or convicted of crimes and currently held in a new detention facility
in Baghdad’s Kazhimiya neighborhood. Bir Qadar did not provide details
of charges or convictions. Al-Kilabi said some PMF fighters had received
10 and 20-year sentences, but did not say what crimes they had been
charged with.<br />
Iraqi law contains no specific provisions for war crimes, crimes
against humanity, or genocide, and Human Rights Watch urged Prime
Minister Haider al-Abbadi to rectify this in a meeting in late March.
Holding fighters accountable under the laws of war became even more
important after the prime minister, on February 22, 2016, decided to
transform the PMF into a permanent military institution with military
ranks directly linked to the office of the commander in chief, who is
the prime minister.<br />
Kurdish Regional Government officials, in a March 26, 2016 letter to
Human Rights Watch, said that Masoud Barzani, president of the
autonomous Kurdish Region of Iraq, had issued Order No. 3 in March to
Peshmerga fighters to observe principles of human rights and
humanitarian law. The order stated that, “In all possible situations,
civilians should be protected from any threat on their lives and
properties, as well as the protection of their towns and villages which
have been liberated by Peshmerga forces.”<br />
“Training in the laws of war and orders to respect it are positive
moves, but need to result in actual respect for the laws during
conflict,” Stork said. “Given the record of abuses by armed actors on
all sides, it is crucial for Iraq’s international allies to press the
government to discipline and hold accountable fighters and commanders
who violate the laws of war.”<br />
<a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/04/24/iraq-protecting-civilians-key-mosul-battle">Read more:</a></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1131761728227795937.post-45500737761348789212016-05-02T13:14:00.000+01:002016-05-02T13:14:08.490+01:00UN Casualty Figures for Iraq for the Month of April 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Baghdad, Iraq, 01 May 2016 – A total of 741 Iraqis were killed
and another 1,374 were injured in acts of terrorism, violence and armed
conflict in Iraq in April 2016*, according to casualty figures recorded
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The number of civilians killed in April was 410 (including 11 federal
police, Sahwa civil defence, Personal Security Details, facilities
protection police, fire department), and the number of civilians injured
was 973 (including 20 federal police, Sahwa civil defence, Personal
Security Details, facilities protection police, fire department).<br />
<a href="http://www.uniraq.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=5580:un-casualty-figures-for-iraq-for-the-month-of-april-2016&Itemid=633&lang=en">Read more</a></div>
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