05/12/2008 Fatima Ahmed from Sudan, Yanar Mohammed from Iraq, and Robitalia Moreno Díaz and María del Rosario Moreno Díaz from Colombia all link their experience of motherhood to their drive to work for social justice.

05/03/2008 Queen and Country by Steve McQueen - a cabinet containing a series of facsimile postage sheets, each one dedicated to a British soldier killed in Iraq - is on tour, starting at the Royal Festival Hall.

05/02/2008 Iraqis that have fled to Jordan and Syria are only managing to get by because they help each other, writes a U.S. peace advocate after meeting with refugees and the groups that support them in Amman.

05/02/2008 A security think tank updates readers on recent statements made by Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and Barack Obama regarding Iraq, Iran, nuclear weapons and proliferation, India, and North Korea.

04/22/2008 Through the stories of the Rabban and Karana families, Adam Doster relates the immense difficulties facing Iraqi refugees -- including the few who manage to receive asylum in the United States.

04/21/2008 SAN FRANCISCO, Apr 21 (OneWorld) - About 300,000 U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or major depression. Another 320,000 veterans likely suffer from traumatic brain injury (TBI), a type of physical brain damage often caused by explosions from roadside bombs.

04/17/2008 Campaigners dressed as pirates stage a demonstration against moves by UK-based multinational corporation BP to control the development, production and depletion of Iraq’s oil reserves.

04/17/2008 Press freedom advocates have welcomed Wednesday's release of Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein, noting that his ordeal demonstrates a U.S. military practice of removing journalists from the field, locking them up, and never saying why.
From: Committee to Protect Journalists

04/16/2008 While General Petraeus and the American Ambassador to Iraq testified recently about security improvements and a decrease in violence in Iraq, they failed to mention the almost 5 million Iraqis displaced by the war. Jamal Dajani reports.

04/14/2008 Richard Butler, a British journalist who was kidnapped in Basra on 10 February, was rescued by Iraqi soldiers today.

04/09/2008 A military policy analyst mediates a blog of reactions and updates as the head of the U.S. forces in Iraq and the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq testify before Congress on the status of the war.

04/08/2008 Shortly after her husband's assassination, Coretta Scott King gave a dramatic speech in his place, elucidating the "10 Commandments on Vietnam" he had written out just before his death. They ring powerfully familiar today.

04/03/2008 The power struggle between the Iraqi government and Shi'a cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's militia -- most recently encapsulated in the "collapse" of the U.S. backed Basra offensive and Sadr's cease fire -- testify to the failure of the "surge," writes Phyllis Bennis.

03/20/2008 Despite the Bush administration's 'rhetoric' about success in Iraq, the U.S. strategy of dividing the Shia and Sunni populations -- giving political power to the former and military support to 'resistance' groups within the latter -- has the potential to bring violence to all time highs, writes Dahr Jamail.

03/19/2008 NEW YORK, Mar 19 (OneWorld) - Tens of thousands of people are taking to the streets in major towns and cities across the United States today to express their anger and frustration with the Bush administration's policy on Iraq.

03/18/2008 SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND, Mar 18 (OneWorld) - Dozens of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans publicly testified this weekend about crimes they committed during the course of battle -- many of which were prompted by the orders or policies laid down by superior officers.

03/18/2008 A five-year downward trend in asylum applications in industrialised countries was reversed in 2007, largely because of an increase in the number of Iraqi asylum-seekers, according to provisional statistics compiled by the UN refugee agency.
+ Carnage and Despair in Iraq

03/17/2008 Five years after the outbreak of the war in Iraq, the humanitarian situation in most of the country is among the most critical in the world, the International Committee of the Red Cross said in a report issued today.

03/14/2008 It began with a blinding flash and promises of speedy victory. Five years on, the mission is far from accomplished, says Neal Ascherson.
From The New Statesman

03/14/2008 The number of Ugandans working as security guards in Iraq has hit the 6,000 mark, according to the Minister of State for Labour, Mwesigwa Rukutana.
From The Monitor

03/12/2008 Over 30 peace and justice organizations, bolstered by people across the United States, will unite next Wednesday for a day of nonviolent demonstration and civil disobedience against the U.S. war in Iraq.
From: United for Peace and Justice

03/12/2008 The U.S. military needs help understanding Islamic cultures. But many anthropologists object to their colleagues working with the military, especially in combat situations, says William O Beeman.

03/04/2008 Although Jordan opened its schools to Iraqi students last August, many refugee youth struggle to study and live normal lives as their families remain mired in poverty.

03/03/2008 Peace advocates are calling on Americans to hold events in their hometowns the day after the 4,000th U.S. military death in Iraq is announced.

02/27/2008 Former SAS soldier Ben Griffin blasts Britain's involvement in "Extraordinary Rendition" and its role in maintaining secretive prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan in which individuals face torture.
From Stop the War Coalition

02/13/2008 Aid agencies operating in Iraq have launched their first Consolidated Appeal for more than $265 million to help meet the immediate needs of the most vulnerable displaced Iraqis.

02/08/2008 A national security think tank explains why it matters that the United States refused to commit -- for now -- to protecting Iraq from external threats, as was announced Wednesday.

02/01/2008 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 31 (OneWorld) - State legislators in Vermont introduced legislation Wednesday demanding the state's National Guard troops return from Iraq. Lawmakers in Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania are poised to push similar legislation.

01/29/2008 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 28 (OneWorld) - An arms control group in Washington, DC has begun a petition drive urging Congress to stop President Bush from signing an agreement they say could bind his successor to continue the occupation of Iraq for another five years.

01/20/2008 Like all docudramas, Battle for Haditha raises the issue of the ethics of imagining a real event – in this case, the retaliatory massacre of 24 Iraqis after a roadside bomb killed two US soldiers – and presenting it as a drama.

01/18/2008 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 17 (OneWorld) - As they travel the country searching for votes, each of the big three Democratic candidates for president has pledged to withdraw large numbers of troops from Iraq during their first year in office.

01/17/2008 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 16 (OneWorld) - A federal court in San Francisco has cleared the way for a major national class action lawsuit on behalf of veterans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

01/15/2008 The U.S. military in Iraq has recently built up new troops of 'Awakening' forces comprising primarily former resistance fighters and tribal groups, but, notes a local lawyer, "It seems that violence has become routine procedure for...the so-called Awakening fighters."

01/14/2008 "US media generally portray violence against Iraqi women as an unfortunate part of Arab or Muslim 'culture,'" but this explanation of the unusually high female death toll in Basra ignores the reality that the US occupation has actually empowered fundamentalist Islamic factions in the region, says an international women's rights group.

01/11/2008 To raise money and awareness for the plight of displaced Iraqis among neighboring Arab nations, the UN and the Arab League are launching a "massive" campaign featuring celebrities and refugee stories.

01/10/2008 The League of Arab States will launch a massive fund-raising and public awareness campaign on Friday to help hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugees.

01/10/2008 About 151,000 violent deaths have occurred in Iraq between the US-led invasion in March 2003 and June 2006, according to a new estimate by a prestigious US medical journal.

01/09/2008 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 8 (OneWorld) - The heads of 21 international humanitarian organizations have sent a letter to George W. Bush, demanding the U.S. president address Iraq's "refugee crisis" during his week-long trip to the Middle East, which begins Wednesday.

01/07/2008 In a letter to President Bush, 20 international humanitarian organizations urge the U.S. to spearhead the global response to the displacement of over 4.5 million Iraqis, who have not only been driven from their homes but are finding it increasingly difficult to access food, healthcare, and education.

01/02/2008 Should it ever be finished, the US embassy in Iraq will stand as a colossal monument to the Bush administration’s failures, says Allen McDuffee.

12/31/2007 Christian Salmon considers how George Bush's wartime administration used a magician, Hollywood designers, and Karl Rove telling 1,001 stories to sell the invasion of Iraq.
From: Le Monde

12/27/2007 BAQUBA, Dec 27 (IPS) - The Iraqi government announcement that monthly food rations will be cut by half has left many Iraqis asking how they can survive.

12/20/2007 Congress' approval Wednesday of $70 billion more for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan mean the twin conflicts are now more costly to American taxpayers than the war in Vietnam.

12/20/2007 A recent report demonstrates the dismal choices of Iraqi refugees seeking asylum in neighboring countries.
From: Human Rights Watch

12/18/2007 The UN Refugee Agency is appealing to the British public to help displaced Iraqis following the displacement of people in northern Iraq as a result of shelling by Turkey.

12/14/2007 Michael T. Klare explains why he feels the Iraq War is so closely tied to the United States' failure to effectively address climate change.

12/14/2007 The parliament of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq has approved a press bill described by an international media watchdog as "restrictive."

12/11/2007 "Both the American and Iraqi people would benefit by ending the US military presence in Iraq," write Walter Cronkite and David Krieger.

12/07/2007 "Although improved security in parts of Iraq is encouraging some displaced Iraqis to return home, people are primarily returning because they have exhausted their resources and can no longer afford to live in refuge countries," says an organization working with refugees.

11/30/2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 29 (OneWorld) - U.S. war veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan have announced they're planning to descend on Washington, DC this March to testify about war crimes they committed or personally witnessed in Iraq.

11/27/2007 Domestic violence in the Russian Federation; sex slavery in India; self-immolation in Central Asian republics; gender-based violence and HIV; and 'compensation' marriages are the five underreported stories used by the UN Population Fund to launch a campaign against gender-based violence.
From: UNFPA

11/25/2007 Amid media reports that thousands of refugees are going back to Iraq, the UN refugee agency says that while improved security conditions were welcome it was not yet time to promote returns.

11/20/2007 Needy Iraqi refugees living in Syria have begun to receive food aid from a coalition of international agencies who will be working in the region over the next two months.

11/17/2007 Remembrance Day was marred by the unacknowledged deaths in Iraq - a genocide that threatens to outstrip the horrors of Rwanda in the numbers killed and displaced, says John Pilger.
FromNew Statesman

11/07/2007 Reporters in Iraq risk their lives no matter what their gender, but six Iraqi women were recently honored for their courageous coverage of women's issues in defiance of a violent and male-dominated culture.
From: Women's E-News

11/06/2007 Millions of Iraqis don't have the means to leave and are trapped in a country where consistently recurring violence makes life difficult, according to experts.

10/29/2007 NEW YORK, Oct 29 (OneWorld) - Donald Rumsfeld, the former U.S. secretary of defense, is facing criminal charges in France for ordering the torture of prisoners in Iraq and at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay.

10/27/2007 NEW YORK, Oct 26 (OneWorld) - Preparation for nationwide protests against the Bush administration's war plans against Iran and the continued occupation of Iraq are in full swing.

10/24/2007 Nearly 5,000 people, many of whom are already poor, have been forced to flee their homes along the Iraq-Turkey border as tension rises between Turkish-Kurdish rebels and the Turkish army. "It will be a [humanitarian] disaster," said Kalif Dirar, a senior official in the Kurdistan regional government.

10/24/2007 After eight years of military service, Camilo Mejía became the first Iraq soldier to be prosecuted for refusing to fight, citing his moral objections to the war and occupation. Mejía is now a zealous antiwar activist and was recently featured, with several colleagues, in a roundtable discussion to educate the public on the situation in Iraq.

10/09/2007 Iraqi "security" forces being created with $20 billion of U.S. funds may be stoking civil unrest as they accompany American troops on raids, says Pratap Chatterjee.
From: CorpWatch

10/05/2007 Andrew Lam, a Vietnamese refugee who migrated to the United States decades ago, advises an Iraqi refugee about seeking asylum in a country waging war on his homeland and how to share his story with those around him.
From: New America Media

09/25/2007 The Iraqi refugee crisis is reaching breaking point, with help from the international community "seriously inadequate", says a new Amnesty International report.

09/24/2007 As Iraqis leave their war-torn homeland in droves, the pressure of refugee resettlement has shifted from Iraq’s neighbors to industrialized countries farther afield, new statistics show.

09/20/2007 A social justice organization is launching a new campaign to press for the $720 million the United States spends each day in Iraq to be redirected to fund human needs at home and "real solutions" in Iraq.

09/18/2007 An estimated 1.2 million Iraqis have met violent deaths since the 2003 invasion, according to a new study.
From AlterNet

09/14/2007 PROVIDENCE, Sep 13 (OneWorld) - Observers of the situation in Iraq lashed out at the Bush administration Thursday ahead of the president's prime time address to the nation.

09/11/2007 Efforts in Iraq have achieved "progress" and reached a "turning point" many times over the past four and a half years, says the Council for a Livable World about a key military report to Congress this week.

09/05/2007 A new Web site launched Tuesday, featuring the first-person accounts of U.S. veterans returned from Iraq.
From: warcomeshome.org

09/05/2007 LOS ANGELES, Sep 4 (OneWorld) - Trained as a machine gunner, 32-year-old Jorge Reyes Jr. served 10 years in the U.S. Army and had considered a career in the armed services. But after a tour as a rear gunner on hum-vees in Iraq, he decided to leave the military when his term was up, and is now on his way to college.

08/31/2007 An SMS campaign by mobile phones started yesterday in Damascus to inform more than 10,000 Iraqi refugee families about the launch of the first food distribution programme for Iraqi refugees in Syria.

08/31/2007 The murder of an Iraqi translator and interpreter employed by a US television network takes the number of journalists and media workers killed in Iraq since the start of the US-led invasion in March 2003 to 200.

08/28/2007 The humanitarian situation in Iraq continues to deteriorate with the number of displaced Iraqis rising, both inside and outside the country.

08/20/2007 SAINT LOUIS, Aug 20 (OneWorld) - Members of a leading Iraq war veterans' organization voted this weekend to launch a campaign encouraging U.S. troops to refuse to fight.

08/18/2007 A 10-point plan for peace in and with Iraq - necessary because "Iraq and its citizens, the region, the world order and the position of the U.S. itself has deteriorated markedly due to the failed policies of leading Western countries."

08/08/2007 COPENHAGEN, Aug 8 (OneWorld) - Throughout the past century, Scandinavian countries have been internationally respected for keeping their doors open to those fleeing wars and bloody conflicts at home. But recent policy decisions on immigration and asylum indicate that change may be in the offing.

08/08/2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 8 (OneWorld) - A new public opinion poll has found nearly two thirds of Iraqis oppose plans to open the country's oilfields to foreign companies.

08/08/2007 Many internally displaced people in camps in Iraq are facing shortages of water, especially clean drinking water, and the situation is being exploited by unscrupulous militants, local non-governmental organisations say.

08/07/2007 The U.S. government is pressing Baghdad to pass an oil law by September as one of its "benchmarks" of progress, but until now ordinary Iraqis have not been asked their views on the plan to open the country's oilfields to foreign investment. Turns out they oppose it.

08/07/2007 The U.S. arms deal with Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Israel represents the abandonment of President Bush's democratic reform agenda in the region, says foreign policy analyst Matt Duss.

08/03/2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 2 (OneWorld) - Nearly one in three Iraqis need immediate emergency aid because of a humanitarian crisis that's developed over four years of U.S. occupation, according to a new report out this week.

08/01/2007 Although the UN's refugee office has recently amplified its efforts, a U.S.-based group is insisting that other UN agencies have yet to respond adequately to the Iraqi refugee crisis and must do so promptly.

07/29/2007 Two UN agencies have issued a $129 million joint appeal aimed at getting tens of thousands of uprooted Iraqi children back in school.

07/27/2007 Ahead of Thursday's conference in Jordan on Iraqi refugees, 36 international humanitarian organizations have urged governments to dramatically increase the amount of aid they give to countries hosting Iraqi refugees.

07/27/2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 26 (OneWorld) - Peace advocates in the United States are welcoming a Congressional vote Wednesday that may be a political stepping stone to ending U.S. participation in the war in Iraq.

07/26/2007 Latino teenagers, including undocumented immigrants, are being recruited into the U.S. military with false promises of citizenship for themselves and their families, reports Deborah Davis for In These Times.

07/19/2007 Another "unthinkable" war in Iraq may break out and the U.S. may have misjudged its capacity to maintain stability, says Hisae Nakanishi.
From: Transnational Foundation

07/18/2007 James Petras attempts to answer the question: Why is the U.S. public, which opinion polls show as over 60 percent in favor of withdrawing troops from Iraq, so politically impotent?

07/11/2007 "Persecution and generalized violence continue despite a change of government in Baghdad," Human Rights Watch said this week, urging Germany to rethink its policy on Iraqi refugees in the country.
From: Human Rights Watch

07/10/2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 10 (OneWorld) - The U.S. military has expelled the son of a leading peace activist for going AWOL after returning from a year tour in Iraq.

07/02/2007 SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 2 (OneWorld) - Marine Corps reservist Todd Bowers was half-way through his degree in Middle Eastern Studies at George Washington University when the Pentagon pulled him out of school and sent him on two combat tours to Iraq.

06/21/2007 A proposal introduced Wednesday, on World Refugee Day, would facilitate the resettlement of Iraqi refugees in the United States -- particularly those who worked directly with U.S. forces in the country.
From: Human Rights First

06/19/2007 The number of refugees in the world has increased for the first time since 2002, largely as a result of the crisis in Iraq, the UN refugee agency said today.
+ Halt Mass Deportation of Afghans, Iran Told

06/15/2007 A documentary web series follows the lives of a few Iraqi 20-somethings trying to survive in the Iraqi capital.

06/10/2007 Depends on who's counting, says New America Media editor Amir Soltani, analyzing the competing assessments to come up with a likely figure of U.S. and Iraqi casualties per day and per hour.
From: New America Media

06/04/2007 With 2 million Iraqi refugees scattered around the region their only options are to return to their homeland, try to integrate into their host country, or be resettled into a third country. Unfortunately, none of those options are currently open to most of them, says refugee advocate Anna Husarska.

06/01/2007 The murder of four Iraqi journalists in five days has provoked a call for a taskforce to tackle violence against press.
From Reporters Without Borders

05/22/2007 The death of Ali Khalil of the daily al-Zaman brings to 177 the number of journalists and media workers killed in Iraq since March 2003.