Section: Accountability
الدينار والثقة والسلطة: هل تنذر ضغوط الدولار بتحول سياسي في العراق؟
تستدعي ضغوط سعر الصرف في العراق ذاكرة انهيار الدينار خلال التسعينيات، لكن اختلاف بنية الاقتصاد والسلطة يجعل المقارنة بحاجة إلى تدقيق. الخطر السياسي لا يكمن في ارتفاع الدولار وحده، بل في تحوّله إلى حلقة ضمن أزمة معيشة وعدالة وثقة بالمؤسسات.
7 October 2026
Incomplete Justice: How Are Turkmen Child Survivors of ISIS Being Denied Their Rights for the Third Time?
Incomplete Justice: Why Do Turkmen Child Survivors of ISIS Remain Outside the Survivors Law? By Hussein Zain al-Abidin | Independent Researcher — Minority Rights in Iraq | husseinmonitor.com Yazidi MP Khalid Sido announced today, Saturday, 22 …
22 August 2026
Five Years of the Yazidi Survivors Law
Five Years of the Yazidi Survivors Law: The Case for Substantive Amendments By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com On March 1, 2021, Iraq's parliament passed the Yaz…
25 July 2026
Five Years Since the Yazidi Survivors Law
Five Years Since the Yazidi Survivors Law: Time for Substantive Amendments By Hussein Zain al-Abidin | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com On March 1, 2021, the Iraqi Council of Representatives passed the Yazidi Survivors Law…
25 July 2026
Iraq Before the UN Human Rights Council: Promises Without Accountability
Iraq Before the UN Human Rights Council: Promises Without Accountability By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com In January 2025, Iraq appeared before the United Nati…
12 June 2026
Iraq's New Government and the Turkmen Question: A Community of Millions With No Seat at the Table
JUNE 1, 2026 · HUSSEIN MONITOR Iraq's New Government and the Turkmen Question: A Community of Millions With No Seat at the Table Iraq's Turkmen community — the country's third largest ethnic group, with a population esti…
1 June 2026
Camp Speicher: 1,700 Killed in One Day — Iraq's Largest Single ISIS Massacre and the Unfinished Reckoning
Camp Speicher: 1,700 Killed in One Day — Iraq's Largest Single ISIS Massacre and the Unfinished Reckoning On June 12, 2014 — two days after ISIS seized Mosul — the group executed between 1,500 and 1,700 Iraqi Air Force c…
31 May 2026
450 Turkmen Women Kidnapped by ISIS — A Decade of Silence and Unanswered Justice
450 Turkmen Women Kidnapped by ISIS — A Decade of Silence and Unanswered Justice In June 2014, ISIS seized Tal Afar and surrounding Turkmen towns in northwestern Iraq. Within days, an estimated 450 Turkmen women and girl…
3 May 2026
5,000 ISIS Detainees Moved from Syria to Iraq: Justice or a Legal Black Hole?
5,000 ISIS Detainees Moved from Syria to Iraq: Justice or a Legal Black Hole? In early 2026, the United States transferred more than 5,000 ISIS-linked detainees from Syrian prisons to Iraqi custody — including senior lea…
4 April 2026
They Escaped ISIS — But Did They Find Freedom? The Ongoing Struggle of Yazidi and Turkmen Survivors
They Escaped ISIS — But Did They Find Freedom? The Ongoing Struggle of Yazidi and Turkmen Survivors For the women who survived ISIS captivity, escape was not the end of the ordeal — it was the beginning of a different on…
1 April 2025
Ten Years Since the Fall of Tal Afar: A Community Displaced, Women Still Missing, and Justice Still Waiting
JUNE 15, 2024 · HUSSEIN MONITOR Ten Years Since the Fall of Tal Afar: A Community Displaced, Women Still Missing, and Justice Still Waiting In June 2014, ISIS seized Tal Afar and erased a community in days. Ten years lat…
14 June 2024
Europe Can Prosecute ISIS — And It Should: The Case for Universal Jurisdiction
Europe Can Prosecute ISIS — And It Should: The Case for Universal Jurisdiction While Iraq's judiciary struggles with the scale and complexity of ISIS crimes, European courts have a legal tool that could change the equati…
31 May 2024
UNITAD Is Closing: Who Protects the Witnesses Now?
UNITAD Is Closing: Who Protects the Witnesses Now? By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com On September 17, 2024, the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Acc…
10 April 2024
Transitional Justice in Iraq: Illusion or Reality?
Transitional Justice in Iraq: Illusion or Reality? By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com Iraq has had 23 amnesties between 1975 and 2016. It has had dozens of prose…
22 January 2024
Sinjar: Ten Years After the Genocide — What Has Changed?
Sinjar: Ten Years After the Genocide — What Has Changed? By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com On August 3, 2014, ISIS launched a coordinated attack on Sinjar. With…
3 October 2023
Iraq's Amnesty Law
Iraq's Amnesty Law: Justice for the Wrongly Detained — or a Path to Freedom for ISIS Perpetrators? By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com Iraq's General Amnesty Law …
15 January 2022