Iraq

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• Country News 601

• Abduction 17
• Access to water 5
• Anti-terrorism law 2
• Arabs 2
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 3
• Armed attacks on camps 11
• Armed forces / Military 7
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 18
• Armenian 1
• Asylum policy 2
• Asylum-seekers 13
• Baha'i 1
• Border controls 2
• Border crossers 2
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• Ceasefire 2
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• Child soldiers 6
• Children's rights 19
• Children-at-risk 23
• Chinese 1
• Christian 23
• Civil war 11
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• Conflict prevention 6
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• Conflict situation 33
• Contemporary forms of slavery 1
• Corruption 1
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• Criminal justice 2
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• Extrajudicial executions 19
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• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 8
• Freedom of assembly and association 9
• Freedom of expression 28
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• Freedom of movement 3
• Freedom of religion 8
• Freedom of speech 18
• Gender discrimination 1
• Gender-based persecution 3
• Genocide 3
• Good governance 20
• Hazara 1
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• Human rights law 1
• Humanitarian assistance 96
• Hutus 1
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• Immunity 2
• Impunity 12
• Independence of judiciary 1
• Integration 5
• Internal armed conflict 136
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• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 109
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• International protection 2
• Involuntary repatriation 1
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• Legal representation / Legal aid 1
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• Livelihoods 1
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• Maternal and child health care 3
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• Migrants 34
• Military operations 42
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• Minority rights 6
• Muslim 8
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• Palestinian 5
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• Peacekeeping 6
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• Persecution based on political opinion 2
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 1
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• Persons of concern to UNHCR 1
• Police 14
• Political groups 1
• Political parties 8
• Political situation 53
• Population transfers 2
• Protection of camps 3
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 66
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 3
• Public health 8
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 7
• Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 1
• Ratification 1
• Reception 15
• Reconciliation 14
• Refugee camps 16
• Refugee seamen 4
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 3
• Refugees 107
• Registration 8
• Religious discrimination 5
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 20
• Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 2
• Resettlement 20
• Return conditions 1
• Returnees 6
• Right to education 8
• Right to food 11
• Right to health 5
• Right to justice 3
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 8
• SGBV 18
• Sabean Mandean 5
• Sanctions 3
• Security forces 44
• Security situation 123
• Sexual and reproductive rights 2
• Shabak 10
• Sharia law 1
• Shia 15
• Smuggling of persons 1
• Social group persecution 3
• Sunni 12
• Survivors of trafficking / Persons at risk of trafficking 2
• Terrorism 169
• Threats / Intimidation 3
• Torture 6
• Trafficking in persons 5
• Transgression of social / cultural norms 1
• Transit 6
• Treaties / Agreements / Charters / Protocols / Conventions / Declarations 3
• Turkmen 13
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 3
• Voluntary repatriation 2
• War crimes 11
• Women's rights 3
• Women-at-risk 10
• Yazīdī 28
• 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