The state of human rights in Iraq
Since October 2019, the authorities have forcefully repressed national popular movements against government corruption and poor economic conditions, leading to gross and hostile violations on journalists, protestors, and human rights defenders, including incommunicado detention, arbitrary arrest, physical attacks, enforced disappearance, kidnapping, torture, ill-treatment, abductions, and targeted assassinations.
Latest Actions from Iraq
Three journalists fired from their positions with State-owned newspaper Al-Sabah
Beirut, 16 January, 2012 -- On 2 January 2012, Al-Sabah, a State-owned daily newspaper based in Baghdad announced that it had dismissed the head of the cultural
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Latest News & Publications from Iraq
GCHR’s Activities during the 59th session of UN Human Rights Council
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) carried out advocacy on behalf of human rights defenders at the 59th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)
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GCHR’s 35th Periodic Report on Human Rights Violations in Iraq
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) has documented the human rights situation in Iraq during the past five years since the start of the popular movement, including
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