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
Human Rights in the Middle East Countries: 2025 Annual Report of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The main objective of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) is to foster a vibrant and safe civic space in which human rights defenders (HRDs)
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Assassination of WHRD Yanar Mohammed, Emblematic Figure of the Feminist Movement, Condemned
The assassination of woman human rights defender Yanar Mohammed, a prominent Iraqi feminist and President of the Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI),
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