As Iraqis gather at the morgue seeking news of missing relatives, anger boils over on the banks of the Tigris https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/let-me-die-river-mosul-struggles-come-terms-ferry-disaster
Last week, I attended a presentation and film on the problems of mines throughout Iraq. The trailer is here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHcDG6K2X3U Yesterday, I heard a radio program from Baghdad which focused on the threat that mines pose to Iraqi families and tourists...
In this critical time, Voices for Iraq would like to extend to the families of the victims, in Belgium, our heartfelt condolences. VFI also, would like to call on all the countries that have been hardest hit by terrorist attacks...
http://dp8hsntg6do36.cloudfront.net/56df1c5aff2afb7066000002/35dfff8e-ce69-44b4-89c6-9725b97f9e11low.webm The Greek island of Lesbos is the gateway to fortress Europe for many of those fleeing war and poverty amid the ongoing refugee crisis. There, an international group of aid workers and volunteers seeks to help refugees...
As part of our commitment to the working group of International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM), we are organizing a panel for the “16th Conference of the IASFM“, to be hosted by the Center for Migration...
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum Walls Bear Witness: Iraqi Minorities in Peril
The Holocaust museum held a discussion with experts on the plight of ethnic and religious minorities in Iraq who have been targeted by the self-proclaimed Islamic State and are now displaced, not knowing when—or if—they will be able to return home.
Find more; http://www.ushmm.org/
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Noted from a United Nations’ dispatch today “Many Iraqis come from Baghdad, which remains under government control, and many left Mosul before and after its fall to ISIS and crossed on foot to Turkey.” LESVOS, 13 October 2015 (IRIN)...