Iraq

• Country News 281
• Country Reports 2

• Abduction 67
• Abuse of psychiatry 2
• Africans 3
• Ahmadis 6
• Alawi 2
• Albanians 6
• Albinism/Persons with Albinism 6
• Anti-terrorism law 12
• Arabs 1
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 48
• Armed attacks on camps 13
• Armed forces / Military 113
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 163
• Assyrians 2
• Bedoon 2
• Border conflict 38
• Border controls 4
• Border crossers 4
• Buddhist 17
• Burden-sharing and international co-operation 1
• Ceasefire 90
• Chechen 12
• Child soldiers 11
• Children's rights 10
• Children-at-risk 24
• Christian 73
• Civil and political rights 2
• Civil war 29
• Climate change (including environmental migrants) 2
• Combatants / Former combatants 4
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 32
• Conflict resolution 14
• Conflict situation 8
• Contemporary forms of slavery 2
• Corruption 36
• Country of origin information (COI) 4
• Coup d'état 19
• Crimean Tatars 4
• Crimes against humanity 8
• Death penalty 84
• Demobilization / Disarmament 6
• Democracy 1
• Deportation / Forcible return 12
• Disappeared persons 11
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 18
• Drug trafficking 4
• Druze 4
• Effective remedy 1
• Election law 1
• Elections 174
• Embargo 2
• Ethiopians 4
• Exiles 4
• Extradition 6
• Extrajudicial executions 26
• Extreme poverty 2
• Falun Gong 2
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 6
• Forced labour 2
• Forced marriage 9
• Forced relocation 1
• Foreign occupation 13
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 26
• Freedom of assembly and association 100
• Freedom of expression 95
• Freedom of information 67
• Freedom of movement 2
• Freedom of religion 33
• Freedom of speech 36
• Fulani 5
• Gang related violence 2
• Gender discrimination 2
• Gender-based persecution 2
• Generalized violence 3
• Genocide 2
• Good governance 20
• HIV and AIDS 5
• Han 2
• Harmful traditional practices 4
• Hindu 8
• Honour killings 14
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 7
• Human rights activists 35
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 19
• Humanitarian assistance 21
• IDP camps 4
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 2
• Immigrants 7
• Immigration law 1
• Impunity 4
• Independence of judiciary 2
• Indigenous persons 2
• Internal armed conflict 126
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 28
• International armed conflict 1
• International courts and tribunals 13
• International criminal law 2
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 2
• Jehovah's Witness 1
• Jew 2
• Kachin 6
• Kurd 73
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 7
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 60
• Maronite 2
• Migrant rights 2
• Migrants 28
• Military courts 4
• Military law 2
• Military operations 99
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 7
• Muslim 114
• Nepalis 2
• One-child policy / Family planning 4
• Opposition 84
• Palestinian 57
• Passports 2
• Peace agreements 67
• Peace process 20
• Peacekeeping 38
• Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 3
• Persecution based on political opinion 77
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 45
• Persons with disabilities 2
• Police 74
• Political groups 2
• Political parties 56
• Political situation 211
• Polygamy 3
• Prison or detention conditions 8
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 43
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 135
• Public health 8
• Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 1
• Reconciliation 4
• Referendum 27
• Refugee / Asylum law 1
• Refugee camps 30
• Refugee seamen 2
• Refugees 102
• Religious discrimination 14
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 46
• Returnees 3
• Right to food 4
• Right to health 3
• Right to justice 2
• Right to self-determination 2
• Rohingya (Arakanese) 8
• Roma 4
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 7
• SGBV 16
• Safe country of origin 14
• Salafi 10
• Sanctions 5
• Secondary movement 4
• Security forces 101
• Security situation 280
• Serb 2
• Shabak 2
• Shan 2
• Sharia law 1
• Shia 62
• Sindhis 2
• Smuggling of persons 2
• Social group discrimination 4
• Social group persecution 3
• Somalis 2
• State of emergency 26
• State protection 1
• Sufi 2
• Sunni 34
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 2
• Tajik 2
• Tamil 9
• Tatars 4
• Terrorism 210
• Tibetan 13
• Tiv 2
• Torture 6
• Trafficking in persons 4
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 2
• Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 2
• Tuareg 7
• Turkmen 4
• Uighur 52
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 1
• Visas 6
• Voluntary repatriation 6
• War crimes 34
• Witchcraft 2
• Women's rights 15
• Women-at-risk 21
• Yazīdī 12

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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