Iraq

• Annual Reports 31
• Country News 206
• Country Reports 49
• Maps 1
• Thematic Reports 2

• Abduction 11
• Access to water 1
• Anti-terrorism law 3
• Arabs 4
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 26
• Armed attacks on camps 3
• Armed forces / Military 17
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 53
• Asylum-seekers 6
• Border controls 2
• Border crossers 2
• Chaldean 1
• Child soldiers 2
• Children's rights 6
• Children-at-risk 15
• Christian 6
• Civil and political rights 4
• Civil war 2
• Combatants / Former combatants 2
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 1
• Conflict resolution 1
• Conflict situation 3
• Contemporary forms of slavery 1
• Corruption 1
• Country of origin information (COI) 1
• Crimes against humanity 6
• Criminal justice 8
• Death in custody 2
• Death penalty 19
• Demobilization / Disarmament 2
• Deportation / Forcible return 4
• Disappeared persons 6
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 4
• Domestic violence 3
• Economic, social and cultural rights 1
• Effective remedy 2
• Elections 2
• Equal opportunities 1
• Ethnic cleansing 1
• Exiles 2
• Expulsion 3
• Extrajudicial executions 31
• Female genital mutilation (FGM) 7
• Forced marriage 7
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 38
• Freedom of assembly and association 24
• Freedom of conscience 1
• Freedom of expression 36
• Freedom of information 20
• Freedom of movement 5
• Freedom of religion 2
• Freedom of speech 21
• Gang related violence 1
• Gender discrimination 5
• Gender-based persecution 3
• Genocide 2
• Good governance 4
• Harmful traditional practices 3
• Honour killings 2
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 2
• Human rights activists 4
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 21
• Human rights monitors 1
• Humanitarian assistance 2
• Immigration Detention 3
• Immunity 1
• Impunity 10
• Internal armed conflict 51
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 31
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 1
• International courts and tribunals 3
• International criminal law 1
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 5
• Iranians 2
• Kurd 50
• Labour law 1
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 3
• Legal representation / Legal aid 2
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 8
• Manifestly unfounded / Clearly abusive claims 2
• Migrants 6
• Military courts 2
• Military law 1
• Military operations 30
• Minorities 6
• Minority rights 3
• Muslim 2
• National security / Public order 5
• Non-refoulement 2
• Non-state agents of persecution 7
• Opposition 1
• Palestinian 2
• Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 4
• Persecution based on political opinion 7
• Persecution of family members 4
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 3
• Persons with disabilities 3
• Police 2
• Political groups 4
• Political parties 7
• Political situation 14
• Pre-trial detention 1
• Prison or detention conditions 16
• Prostitution / Commercial sex work 1
• Protection of camps 1
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 38
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 13
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 5
• Reconciliation 2
• Refoulement 2
• Refugee camps 2
• Refugees 17
• Reintegration 1
• Rejection at border 3
• Religious discrimination 4
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 4
• Resettlement 1
• Return conditions 2
• Returnees 1
• Right to education 2
• Right to health 3
• Right to justice 7
• Right to liberty and security 1
• Right to life 4
• Right to registration at birth 3
• Right to return 1
• Right to seek asylum 3
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 15
• Safe third country 1
• Secondary movement 1
• Security forces 52
• Security situation 43
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 14
• Shabak 2
• Sharia law 1
• Shia 9
• Single procedure 1
• Social group discrimination 5
• Sunni 9
• Terrorism 66
• Torture 7
• Trafficking in persons 1
• Transitional justice (including amnesty laws) 1
• Turkmen 6
• Unaccompanied / Separated children 1
• Universal Periodic Review (UPR) 1
• War crimes 16
• Women's rights 19
• Women-at-risk 13
• Yazīdī 13

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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