Section: Iraq

Iraq

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
Accountability

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
Ali al-Zaidi

Will the Coming Cabinet Vote Include a Turkmen Share?

Nine Portfolios Still Open: Will the Coming Cabinet Vote Include a Turkmen Share? By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com Nearly three months after Iraq's parliament …

9 August 2026
Accountability

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
Accountability

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
Accountability

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
Asylum

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
Asylum

Iraq's Yazidi Survivors Law: A Landmark Step That Left the Turkmen Behind

Iraq's Yazidi Survivors Law: A Landmark Step That Left the Turkmen Behind In 2021, Iraq passed a groundbreaking law recognizing Yazidi survivors of ISIS as victims of genocide and providing reparations. It was celebrated…

5 April 2026
Accountability

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
Asylum

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
Christians

Iraq's Minorities and the Constitution: Rights on Paper, Reality on the Ground

Iraq's Minorities and the Constitution: Rights on Paper, Reality on the Ground By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com "The laws guarantee rights, but they are not ap…

15 July 2024
Accountability

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
Accountability

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
Arabs

Kirkuk After the Agreement: Has the Conflict Really Ended?

Kirkuk After the Agreement: Has the Conflict Really Ended? By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com Kirkuk has been called "an ethnic powder keg waiting to explode." I…

5 November 2023
Accountability

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
Children

Born in Captivity: The Children ISIS Left Behind and the State That Refuses to Recognize Them

Born in Captivity: The Children ISIS Left Behind and the State That Refuses to Recognize Them By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com She was 24 years old, living in …

18 May 2023
Displacement

Iraq's IDP Camps: Open Prisons for a Million People

Iraq's IDP Camps: Open Prisons for a Million People By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com Nearly a decade after ISIS swept through northern Iraq, approximately 1.2 …

12 February 2023
Displacement

The Shabak and Mandaeans: Iraq's Forgotten Minorities

The Shabak and Mandaeans: Iraq's Forgotten Minorities By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com When the world talks about Iraq's minorities, it usually means Christian…

20 October 2022
Displacement

Tal Afar After Liberation: A City Without a Future?

Tal Afar After Liberation: A City Without a Future? By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com When Iraqi forces declared Tal Afar fully liberated from ISIS on September…

14 July 2022
Iraq

Yazidi Women Who Escaped ISIS: Between Trauma and Social Rejection

Yazidi Women Who Escaped ISIS: Between Trauma and Social Rejection By Hussein Zainulabdeen | Independent Researcher — Iraqi Minority Rights | husseinmonitor.com They survived enslavement. They escaped. They came home. An…

8 April 2022
Accountability

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