Iraq: Relief and Recovery
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Report on Gender - based violence in Iraq 2008
This report is published by Inter-agency Information and Analysis Unit (IAU), and focuses on the nature and extent of violence against women and girls, men and boys in Iraq, as it relates to their sex and to their status in society. While there is no doubt that Iraqi men and boys face enormous risk of violence in Iraq, they are significantly less likely to be targeted specifically because they are male. In addition, while men and boys may experience rape and sexual violence during conflict , wom more...
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>A life in Iraq: An ordinary woman’s story
>Amnesty International 2008: Iraq Report
>Women and the Missing: the burden of those left behind
June 19, 2008
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The Internally Displaced People in Iraq
Over two million people became internally displaced and over two million became externally displaced in neighboring countries. Thousands of displaced families became heavily dependant on humanitarian aid, which had intensified the growing humanitarian crisis in Iraq. According to an assessment carried out by the World Food Program in 2007, some 55 percent of the displaced families were unable to get their food rations provided under Iraq’s Public Distribution System (PDS) due to various diffic more...
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>Total internally displaced population is estimated to be more than 2.7 million
>Iraq Returnee Monitoring and needs assessments
> The Iraqi Displacement Crisis
May 28, 2008
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No Let - Up In The Humanitarian Crisis
This report is based on the findings and observations made by ICRC personnel during their regular contacts with the staff in hospitals, health care centres and water and sanitation facilities, with public authorities and with other organisations. According to the report, five years after the outbreak of the war in Iraq, the humanitarian situation in most of the country remains among the most critical in the w more...
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>The Expanded Humanitarian Response Fund: Project and Financial Status
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>'Disastrous' Iraqi humanitarian crisis
April 30, 2008
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New report on Iraq Internal displacement
According to a report issued recently by the working group on internally displaced people (IDPs) in Iraq, it is estimated that over 2.77 million people are currently displaced inside the country. Of these, 1.2 million were displaced before 2006 and more than 1.5 million were displaced in 2006 and 2007. Most of the post-2006 IDPs come from Baghdad and Diyala. Less than 1 percent have been displaced in 2008. The large difference between the current and last IDP count on 31 December 2007 – an more...
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>The Continuing Needs of Iraq's Displaced
>Internal displacement in Iraq
>Five Years later, A Hidden Crisis
April 10, 2008
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The Stronger Women, Stronger Nations: 2008 Iraq Report
This report combines grassroots access and experience with international political expertise to amplify women’s voices in the ongoing discussions about Iraq’s future. It is a result of a partnership between Women for Women International and the Brookings Institution. As the situation in Iraq has continued to devolve into civil war and challenges to the purpose of the U.S. presence continue to mount, Women for Women International chose to talk to Iraqi wome more...
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>Safeguarding the Vulnerable is at the Heart of Protection Mandates
>Conflict Resolution, Communication Skills and Organizational Management - A Capacity-building Workshop for Iraqi Women Leaders
>International Women’s Day celebration in Baghdad
March 12, 2008
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The Stronger Women, Stronger Nations: 2008 Iraq Report
This report combines grassroots access and experience with international political expertise to amplify women’s voices in the ongoing discussions about Iraq’s future. It is a result of a partnership between Women for Women International and the Brookings Institution. As the situation in Iraq has continued to devolve into civil war and challenges to the purpose of the U.S. presence continue to mount, Women for Women International chose to talk to Iraqi wome more...
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>Safeguarding the Vulnerable is at the Heart of Protection Mandates
>Conflict Resolution, Communication Skills and Organizational Management - A Capacity-building Workshop for Iraqi Women Leaders
>International Women’s Day celebration in Baghdad
March 12, 2008
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Iraq Returnee Monitoring and Needs Assessments
In order to better target assistance and understand the returnee context, IOM, in cooperation with MoDM, has started Returnee Monitoring and Needs Assessments in Baghdad Governorate. According to its latest report, return movements continue as conditions deteriorate in places of displacement and security improves in some areas in Iraq. Return figures are difficult to measure since not all returnees are registering with MoDM or other sources, such as local councils. At the close of 2007 MoDM repo more...
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>Iraq Displaced Facing Humanitarian Crisis
> How might humanitarian operationality be in Iraq?
> One year of supposedly increased response to the humanitarian quagmire in Iraq
February 12, 2008
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Assimilation, Exodus, Eradication: Iraq's minority communities since 2003
This report sets out in stark terms, the plight of Iraq’s minority communities post-2003, and makes an urgent plea to the Iraqi government and international community to take action to protect these vulnerable groups, or to risk their disappearance from their ancient homeland forever. Since the US-led coalition forces ended Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath party rule in 2003, the civilian population in Iraq has been subject to escalating violence. For Iraq’s minorities, the conseq more...
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>Iraq Diary: A divided generation
> A million internally displaced people in Iraq
> Returning Home Not End of Story for Iraq's IDPs and Refugees
January 24, 2008
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"Guidelines for Relations Between U.S. Armed Forces and Non-Governmental Humanitarian Organizations"


Leaders of the U.S. military and NGO community have recently agreed on guidelines that will serve as 'rules of the road' for how the two entities should operate in hostile environments. Facilitated by the U.S. Institute of Peace (SIP) the Guidelines seek to mitigate frictions between military and NGO personnel over the preservation of humanitarian space in places like Afghanistan and Iraq.


Principles in more...
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>InterAction
>Guidelines for humanitarian organizations on interacting with military and other security actors in Iraq
>United States Institute of Peace
December 12, 2007
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Iraq: Contrasting figures on displacement
The Iraqi government and humanitarian sources are struggling to agree on current levels of displacement in Iraq. Sectarian-related displacement almost ceased over the past three months, the Ministry of Displacement and Migration said on 3 November, and according to a ministry spokesman, nearly 3,100 families (about 15,500 individuals) had returned to their homes in different areas of Baghdad since mid-2007. A senior Iraqi military official said on 7 November that more than 46,000 more...
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>Mission to Assess Humanitarian Response for Iraqi refugees
>The Human Cost of War: The Iraqi Refugee Crisis
>Iraqi Refugees: A Lot of Talk, Little Action
November 28, 2007
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