Section: United Nations

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

UNITAD Is Gone — What Happens to the Evidence, the Witnesses, and the Hope for Justice?

UNITAD Is Gone — What Happens to the Evidence, the Witnesses, and the Hope for Justice? In September 2024, the UN Investigative Team for Accountability of Da'esh (UNITAD) closed its doors after six years of work in Iraq.…

13 May 2026
Reconstruction

Taza Khurmatu 2016: The ISIS Chemical Attack That the World Chose to Ignore

Taza Khurmatu 2016: The ISIS Chemical Attack That the World Chose to Ignore On March 8, 2016, ISIS launched a chemical weapons attack on Taza Khurmatu — a Shia Turkmen town south of Kirkuk. Hundreds were injured. Childre…

14 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
Sinjar

Bir Alou Antar: What Iraq's Newest Mass Grave Site Is Telling Us — and What It Cannot Yet Say

AUGUST 28, 2024 · HUSSEIN MONITOR Bir Alou Antar: What Iraq's Newest Mass Grave Site Is Telling Us — and What It Cannot Yet Say Between May and August 2024, UNITAD and Iraqi forensic teams excavated a natural sinkhole ne…

27 August 2024