The report presents a summary of accounts received concerning violations of international human rights and humanitarian law, as well as other human rights concerns, arising from the non-international armed conflict, including between Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) and armed groups and the Islamic State of Iraq and On the 20-year anniversary of the invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq, Amnesty International today renewed its calls for justice and full reparation for gross human rights violations and serious violations of international humanitarian law perpetrated by the United States-led Coalition.
The Chief of UNAMI Human Rights Office serves as Country Representative of OHCHR and works with other members of the United Nations Country Team in Iraq to ensure that the human rights-based approach is central to all UN programmatic planning and implementation. The Office has international and national staff working in Baghdad, Basra, Erbil
2 See Human Rights Watch/Middle East, Genocide in Iraq: The Anfal Campaign Against the Kurds (New York: Human Rights Watch, 1993); Iraq’s Crime of Genocide: The Anfal Campaign Against the Kurds In October 2019, demonstrations started in multiple governorates across Iraq on an unprecedented scale, initially driven primarily by young people giving voice to their frustration with poor economic, social and political prospects. This report, Human Rights Violations and Abuses in the Context of Demonstrations in Iraq, details human rights violations and abuses perpetrated against protesters A lack of justice for past human rights violations. Iraq: One year on provides information gathered by Amnesty International during a number of visits to Iraq, both in the immediate aftermath of the conflict and throughout the following year. The report highlights the everyday violence and insecurity the Iraqi people faced.
Twenty years ago, the United States invaded Iraq on the false pretenses that Saddam Hussein threatened the world with weapons of mass destruction and supposedly played a role in the 9/11 attacks. America disastrously mishandled its occupation of Iraq, establishing a system of ethno-sectarian power-sharing that they handed to leaders selected
International human rights law is applicable at all times, but during armed conflict it may be superseded by the laws of war. International human rights law can be found in treaties such as the
The minister of interior or the prime minister can also order investigations into high-profile allegations of human rights abuses, as occurred following reports of ISF abuses during September protests in Basrah. The government rarely made the results of investigations public or punished those responsible for human rights abuses.
Since the Sinjar Compensation Office under Law No. 20 opened in 2021, 10,500 Sinjaris have applied for compensation, an office representative told Human Rights Watch. Although about 5,000 of these
Taleb Al Majli, an Iraqi who described being tortured by US forces after his detention at Abu Ghraib prison in November 2003, at his home in Baghdad in 2023. The US released him without charge in
An Iraqi army division trained by the United States government allegedly executed several dozen prisoners in Mosul’s Old City, Human Rights Watch said today. Two international observers detailed
On the one hand, “shock” at abuses underscores the false American narrative of the protection of human rights and “our values” in how we engage in conflict with others.
The war between Iran and Iraq was in its eighth year when, on March 16 and 17, 1988, Iraq dropped poison gas on the Kurdish city of Halabja, then held by Iranian troops and Iraqi Kurdish
