Iraq

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• Armenian 1
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• Children-at-risk 14
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• Integration 4
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• Police 8
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• Political situation 53
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• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 51
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• Refugee camps 16
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• Refugees 88
• Registration 8
• Religious discrimination 5
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 18
• Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 2
• Resettlement 19
• Return conditions 1
• Returnees 5
• Right to education 7
• Right to food 6
• Right to health 3
• Right to justice 2
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 8
• SGBV 15
• Sabean Mandean 5
• Sanctions 3
• Security forces 31
• Security situation 111
• Sexual and reproductive rights 1
• Shabak 10
• Sharia law 1
• Shia 12
• Smuggling of persons 1
• Social group persecution 3
• Sunni 11
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 1
• Terrorism 136
• Threats / Intimidation 3
• Torture 3
• Trafficking in persons 3
• Transgression of social / cultural norms 1
• Transit 6
• Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 3
• Turkmen 13
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 2
• Voluntary repatriation 2
• War crimes 10
• Women's rights 3
• Women-at-risk 8
• Yazīdī 24
• Zoroastrian 1

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• American Kurdish Information Network
• Amnesty International - Iraq
• Assyrian International News Agency (AINA)
• Azzaman.com
• Centre of Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance
• Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
• Embassy of the United States in Iraq
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Iraq
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Iraq
• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) - Iraq
• Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) - Iraq
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC in Iraq
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC mission in Ankara
• International Crisis Group (ICG) - Iraq
• Iraq Body Count (IBC)
• Iraq Daily
• Iraqi News
• Kurdish Media
• Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq (KRG)
• NGO Coordination Committee for Iraq (NCCI)
• New York Times - Iraq News
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Iraq
• Peyamner News Agency
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) - Iraq
• Radio Free Iraq
• ReliefWeb - Iraq
• Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR)
• UNHCR - Iraq
• United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Iraq
• United Nations News Centre - News Focus: Iraq
• United States Department of State - Iraq
• United States Department of State: Congressional Research Service Reports (CRS) and Issue Briefs
• World Food Programme (WFP) - Iraq
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Iraq