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Iraq Rising temperatures stand out as one of the most prominent direct impacts that Iraq faces due to climate change. During the long summer, temperatures often soar beyond boiling, exacerbating…

BySanar Hasan 0Comments

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Sep 2023

Gender and sexuality

Influence and disagreements criminalizing homosexuality in Iraqi law

Iraq Although Iraqi law does not contain any direct law to criminalize same-sex relations, some vague laws that are used to punish and criminalize the LGBTQ+ community in…

BySaif Ali 1Comments

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Jan 2023

Environment

Marsh Women Struggle with Climate Change in Iraq

Iraq-Maysan Once the Middle East’s largest wetlands were dubbed the ‘garden of Eden’ due to the fertility of the land, but Iraq’s Hawizeh marshes have been parched by years of…

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Dec 2022

Gender and sexuality

Al-Sadr withdraws from politic and returns to his favourite hobby… Homophobic

Al-Sadr's last tweet was not just an advertisement of violence or a public hate led by a homophobic person, but a declaration of a crime to exclude these individuals, as…

BySanar Hasan 0Comments

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Nov 2022

Culture & Society

To the stranger

When I was born, I wasn't welcomed, unlike you We've been alienated since day one, Like a bothersome guest, Patiently waiting to be kicked out. When I was a student, I didn't sit in…

ByRyan Manya 0Comments

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Nov 2022

Culture & Society

Yazidis remain fearful of return to Sinjar

Iraq-Sinjar "They were abducting young girls to present them as gifts to [Islamic State] IS fighters or to sell them in slave markets. They said the Yazidis are infidels."…

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Nov 2022

Culture & Society

Sabean-Mandaeans live on brink of extinction

Iraq Iraq is home to a diverse fabric of ethnic and religious communities, but one of its oldest minority groups is now under threat. There are fears that the…

BySanar Hasan 0Comments

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Nov 2022

Gender and sexuality

Mental Health Nightmare of LGBT in Iraq

“I feel that my body no longer belongs to me” Zainab is a 22 years old lesbian women from Baghdad. Her family forced her to marry a man. She was…

BySanar Hasan 0Comments

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Nov 2022

Environment

Climate change leaves Iraq’s ‘breadbasket’ with less water, wheat, and farmers

NINEVEH, Iraq Shadi Qader’s fingers, once stained by Nineveh’s soil, are now drenched in cement, his nails smudged with the residue of building materials; textures he is still getting used…

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Nov 2022

Environment

Iranian oil supplies are suffocating Iraq

Analysis: Iran is trying to economically and politically subjugate Iraq through its oil exports, as shortages trigger mass electricity blackouts and demonstrations. Iraqi protests can be directly linked to the country’s…

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Tag: iraq

The electricity in Iraq and the anticipated role of renewable energy solutions is a critical issue

Influence and disagreements criminalizing homosexuality in Iraqi law

Marsh Women Struggle with Climate Change in Iraq

Al-Sadr withdraws from politic and returns to his favourite hobby… Homophobic

To the stranger

Yazidis remain fearful of return to Sinjar

Sabean-Mandaeans live on brink of extinction

Mental Health Nightmare of LGBT in Iraq

Climate change leaves Iraq’s ‘breadbasket’ with less water, wheat, and farmers

Iranian oil supplies are suffocating Iraq

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