Section: Minorities
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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