Iraq must take urgent and significant actions to provide better protection for the Yezidi women and girls and make justice a reality.
So long as the ethno-sectarian quota exists, a political class that serves foreign interests will continue to determine Iraq’s political and economic destiny.
Quality education from the outset can eradicate corruption, guarantee peaceful coexistence, and bring about social and economic justice.
The west's failure in Afghanistan and Iraq, says our columnist who predicted both, is above all one of understanding.
In the absence of civil war, the people of Iraq have found an opportunity to demand that the political elite deliver on their election campaign promises.
بينما تدخل الاحتجاجات العارمة في العراق اسبوعها الرابع, تظهر ضرورة فهم مطالب المحتجين الاساسية اضافة الى الديناميكية الاقتصادية والسياسية التي يكشفون عنها. English
While Iraq is experiencing its fourth week of mass protests, it is essential to understand not only their direct causes but also the economic and political dynamics they reveal. العربية
The ramifications from Iraq’s elections do not mean we will witness a better Iraq, but it will certainly differ from the one we know of today.
After years of funding being pumped to Iraq’s NGO sector based on US military needs, local civil society is rebuilding itself based on Iraqi priorities, not least of which is heritage.
The recent Windrush migration scandal poignantly illustrated the tensions between people’s sense of belonging to a country, societal recognition of that belonging, and legal status and access to social rights.
The interests of outsiders, not those of the battered, bloodied and belittled peoples of Iraq and Syria, drive this brutal political theatre.
