Iraq

• Country Briefing Folders 1
• Country News 672

• Abduction 20
• Access to water 7
• 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 19
• Armenian 1
• Asylum policy 2
• Asylum-migration nexus 1
• Asylum-seekers 14
• Baha'i 1
• Border controls 2
• Border crossers 2
• Burden-sharing and international co-operation 2
• Camp management 3
• Ceasefire 2
• Child labour 1
• Child soldiers 6
• Children's rights 24
• Children-at-risk 30
• Chinese 1
• Christian 23
• Civil and political rights 1
• Civil war 11
• Civilian character of asylum 1
• Climate change (including environmental migrants) 1
• Combatants / Former combatants 1
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 2
• Conflict prevention 6
• Conflict resolution 14
• Conflict situation 34
• Contemporary forms of slavery 1
• Corruption 1
• Country of origin information (COI) 1
• Crimes against humanity 16
• Criminal justice 2
• Death penalty 12
• Democracy 5
• Deportation / Forcible return 3
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 3
• Economic, social and cultural rights 12
• Effective remedy 7
• Election law 2
• Elections 30
• Equal opportunities 1
• Exiles 26
• Extrajudicial executions 20
• Extreme poverty 1
• Family reunification 4
• Flight by land, air or sea 1
• Forced labour 1
• Forced marriage 3
• Foreign occupation 2
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 8
• Freedom of assembly and association 9
• Freedom of expression 29
• Freedom of information 21
• Freedom of movement 6
• Freedom of religion 8
• Freedom of speech 18
• Gender discrimination 1
• Gender-based persecution 4
• Genocide 5
• Good governance 21
• Hazara 1
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 1
• Human Rights Council 3
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 13
• Human rights law 1
• Humanitarian assistance 112
• Hutus 1
• IDP camps 7
• Immunity 2
• Impunity 12
• Independence of judiciary 1
• Integration 5
• Internal armed conflict 168
• Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 1
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 127
• International armed conflict 1
• International humanitarian law (IHL) / Geneva Conventions 18
• International protection 2
• Involuntary repatriation 1
• Iranians 17
• Kurd 14
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 1
• Legal representation / Legal aid 1
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 1
• Livelihoods 3
• Mass exodus 1
• Maternal and child health care 5
• Memoranda of understanding (MOU) 2
• Mercenaries 3
• Migrant rights 1
• Migrants 36
• Military operations 45
• Minorities 14
• Minority rights 6
• Muslim 8
• National security / Public order 2
• Non-refoulement 1
• Non-state agents of persecution 14
• Opposition 3
• Palestinian 5
• Peace agreements 1
• Peace process 2
• Peacekeeping 6
• Persecution based on class/wealth/occupation 5
• Persecution based on political opinion 2
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 1
• Persons not in need of international protection 1
• Persons of concern to UNHCR 1
• Police 14
• Political groups 1
• Political parties 8
• Political situation 55
• Population transfers 2
• Protection of camps 3
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 78
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 3
• Public health 8
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 7
• Racism / Xenophobia / Hate Crimes 1
• Ratification 1
• Reception 15
• Reconciliation 16
• Referendum 2
• Refugee camps 17
• Refugee seamen 4
• Refugee status determination (RSD) / Asylum procedures 3
• Refugees 108
• Registration 8
• Religious discrimination 5
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 21
• Rescue at sea / Interception at sea 3
• Resettlement 20
• Return conditions 4
• Returnees 10
• Right to education 9
• Right to food 13
• Right to health 7
• Right to justice 6
• Right to self-determination 2
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 9
• Sabean Mandean 5
• Sanctions 3
• Security forces 46
• Security situation 129
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 25
• 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 191
• 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 13
• Women's rights 4
• Women-at-risk 11
• Yazīdī 30
• 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