Date: 7 May 2013

حذّرت منظمة "أطفال الحرب" البريطانية الأربعاء من &#1571

Date: 8 April 2013

قالت إندبندنت أون صنداي البريطانية -استنادا لتقر&#1610

Date: 2 April 2013

This report extracts mentions of children's rights issues in the reports of the UN Special Procedures. This does not include reports of child specific Special Procedures, such as the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, which are available as separate reports.Please note that the language may have been edited in places for the purpose of clarity

Date: 4 January 2013

في أحد الأحياء الفقيرة في شرق العراق، يمارس أمير (6 س&

Date: 20 December 2012

The respect and protection of human rights in Iraq remains fragile as the country continues its transition from years of conflict and violence to peace and democracy, says the United Nations in its most recent Report on Human Rights in Iraq, which covers the period from 1 January to 30 June 2012.

Date: 13 December 2012

Death sentence for crime allegedly committed at 16.

Date: 21 November 2012

بغداد: اكدت الامم المتحدة الثلاثاء ان اكثر من خمسة &

Date: 8 November 2012

يعيش البغداديون حالة من الخوف والهلع والترقب، لي&#1587

Date: 31 October 2012

The study examines how the number of birth defects soared since the arrival of US troops.

Date: 25 September 2012

أدان مارتن كوبلر الممثل الخاص للأمين العام في الع&#158

Date: 12 September 2012

القائم (العراق) (رويترز) - قال سكان محليون ومسؤولون ان

Date: 1 September 2012

انضمت بعثة الأمم المتحدة في العراق الى قائمة الجه&#157

Date: 30 August 2012

(أربيل، 29 أغسطس/آب 2012) ـ قالت هيومن رايتس ووتش اليوم إن &#160

Date: 30 August 2012

[29 August 2012] - The practice of female genital mutilation continues in the Kurdistan region of Iraq a year after a landmark law banning it went into effect because the Kurdistan Regional Government has not taken steps to implement the law. The Family Violence Law, which went into effect on A

Date: 27 August 2012

قال مسؤولون أمنيون عراقيون إن تنظيم القاعدة في ال&#159

Date: 21 August 2012

Intelligence reports confirm that al-Qaeda is using people with mental disabilities in suicide attacks because of a serious shortage of suicide bombers in its ranks, owing to a lack of interest in the terrorist group's beliefs.

Date: 17 July 2012

Last year, 84 children were killed, 130 injured and 29 violations affecting children’s access to health and education were confirmed.

Date: 3 July 2012

This report extracts mentions of children's rights issues in the reports of all UN Treaty Bodies and their follow-up procedures. This does not include the Concluding Observations of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child which are available here: http://www.crin.org/resources/treaties/index.asp

Date: 31 May 2012

Español / Français / العربية  Developments on the use of the death penalty in 2011 confirmed the global trend towards abolition. The number of countries that were known to have carried out death sentences decreased c

Date: 24 May 2012

العربية / Español / Français / Pусский The courage shown by protesters in the past 12 months has been matched by a failure of leadership that makes the UN Security Council seem tired, out of step a

Date: 27 April 2012

ا ف ب - بعقوبة (العراق) (ا ف ب) - قتلت عائلة عراقية مؤلفة م&#1606

Date: 20 April 2012

Observers believe child prostitution is particularly widespread among Iraq’s displaced families, who have been forced to flee due to violence in their hometowns.

Date: 16 March 2012

بيروت) – قالت هيومن رايتس ووتش ومنظمة العفو الدولي&#15

Date: 15 March 2012

The information below is based on the 2011 report of the Secretary-General to the Security Council (A/65/820-S/2011/250) issued on 23 April 2011. More information is available in the report.

Date: 12 March 2012

بغداد (رويترز) - قالت مصادر أمنية ومصادر مستشفيات ان 1

Date: 12 March 2012

De nombreux « emos », punks et homosexuels ont été agressés, torturés et tués.

Date: 10 February 2012

[9 February 2012] - The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communications procedure which was adopted at the sixty-sixth session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, will be open for signature at a signing ceremony to be held in Geneva, Switzerland, on 28 F

Date: 1 February 2012

الأمم المتحدة ترحب بمصادقة العراق على المعاهدة ا&#1604

Date: 1 February 2012

إعدام 17 شخصا في العراق كشفت وزارة العدل العر&#15

Date: 23 January 2012

العراق: حملة قمع حرية التعبير والتظاهر تشتد ما زا&#1604

Date: 23 January 2012

This 22nd annual World Report summarises human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide in 2011. It reflects extensive investigative work that Human Rights Watch staff has undertaken during the year, often in close partnership with domestic human rights activists. M

Date: 23 January 2012

العراق: بحث يسلط الضوء على العلاقة بين ختان الإناث &#1

Date: 16 January 2012

Cinquante-trois personnes ont été tuées, plus de cent trente blessées dans un attentat-suicide samedi lors d'un pélérinage près de Bassora, à 450 kilomètres au sud de Bagdad.

Date: 9 January 2012

[9 January 2012] - Repression and state violence is likely to continue to plague the Middle East and North Africa in 2012 unless governments in the region and international powers wake up to the scale of the changes being demanded of them, Amnesty International warned today in a new report into the

Date: 14 October 2011

برنامج الأغذية العالمي وحكومة العراق يطلقان برنا

Date: 16 August 2011

The study provides comprehensive evidence on the underlying dynamics of FGM and helps understand, why mothers who themselves experienced the horror of mutilation allow FGM to be practiced on their daughters. A vast majority of women who adhere to the practice believe it to be a religious obligation

Date: 11 August 2011

Bill Shows Commitment to End Violence Against Women

Date: 9 August 2011

Children in Iraq continue to suffer from violence and armed conflict, in some instances having been recruited or used to commit acts of violence.

Date: 8 August 2011

يشير التقرير إلى أن "أوضاع حقوق الإنسان في العراق لا تزال هشة"، كما يقدم عدداً من التوصيات لمعالجة الت&#1581

Date: 8 August 2011

تقرير الأمم المتحدة: أوضاع حقوق الإنسان في العراق &#16

Date: 26 July 2011

كردستان العراق: قانون حظر تشويه الأعضاء التناسلي&#15

Date: 17 July 2011

العراق... أحد أسوأ الأماكن بالنسبة للأطفال   بغداد، 6/

Date: 15 July 2011

[BAGDAD, le 14 juillet 2011] - Près de 900 enfants ont été tués et plus de 3.200 ont été blessés entre 2008 et 2010 par la violence quotidienne en Irak, a affirmé mercredi un communiqué de l'UNICEF à l'occasion de la "Journ&eacu

Date: 13 July 2011

The  report was prepared pursuant to Security Council resolutions 1612 (2005) and 1882 (2009). It is the first report on the situation of children and armed conflict in Iraq to be presented to the Security Council and its Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict. It covers the period from J

Date: 7 July 2011

Achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 in Iraq is doubtful unless the government commits to combating problems related to child poverty, malnutrition, mortality, education, and the use of children in armed conflict.

Date: 13 May 2011

Español / Français As Amnesty International (AI) releases its annual report on human rights, the world stands on the threshold of historic change. Courageous people are standing up and speaking out in the face of bullets, beatings, tear gas and tanks. This bravery is sending a sig

Date: 13 May 2011

The UN has added al Houthi rebels and a pro-government tribal militia in Yemen to its "list of shame" of 57 armed groups that recruit child soldiers or commit other wartime abuses against youngsters.

Date: 9 May 2011

عمالة الأطفال من الظواهر القديمة في المجتمع العراقي، لكنها زادت استفحالا في السنوات القليلة الماض¡

Date: 14 April 2011

    أحداث عراقيون: انتزعوا منا الاعترافات بالضرب   &#

Date: 16 February 2011

  مدني قتلوا بعنف العراق   92600 خلصت در&#15

Date: 5 February 2011

الألغام في العراق ـ عدو صامت وموت مؤجل   مشكلة الأل&#

Date: 26 January 2011

This 21st annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide. It reflects extensive investigative work undertaken in 2010 by Human Rights Watch staff, usually in close partnership with domestic human rights activists. With increasing frequency

Date: 16 September 2010

[6 September 2010] - The Iraqi children's parliament is calling for the ban on private orphanages to be lifted. In Iraq, only the State can open orphanages in accordance with a decision by the Council of Ministers made in 2006, Cinderella al-Shakarchi, head of the country's parliament, told newspap

Date: 4 August 2010

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Date: 21 July 2010

[UNITED NATIONS, 19 July 2010] - Lack of donor funding has forced the United Nations to cut back on its humanitarian efforts in Iraq, with its food aid agency halting distributions to hundreds of thousands of women and children in the conflict-ridden country."We appeal to donors not to give up on th

Date: 19 July 2010

[BEIRUT, 14 July 2010] - A religious edict by the Kurdistan Islamic Scholars Union on female genital mutilation (FGM) sends a clear signal that the practice is not prescribed by Islam, says Human Rights Watch. The edict, however, does not call for an outright ban on this harmful traditional practi

Date: 16 June 2010

[ARBIL, 16 June 2010] - A significant number of girls and women in Iraqi Kurdistan suffer female genital mutilation (FGM) and its destructive after-effects, Human Rights Watch said today in a new report. The Kurdistan Regional Government should take immediate action to end FGM and develop a lo

Date: 27 May 2010

[26 May 2010] - A Fort Wainwright soldier who posted a video mocking Iraqi children on Facebook is being investigated by the Army. An American voice can be heard in the background of the video asking two young Iraqi boys, "Are you going to grow up to be a terrorist? Yeah! All right! Cool! Yeah, ter

Date: 4 March 2010

[LONDRES, 4 de marzo de 2010] - Los médicos de la ciudad iraquí de Faluya están registrando un alto nivel de recién nacidos con diferentes defectos, y algunos de ellos culpan al sofisticado armamento que empleó el Ejército estadounidense después de la invasión de este paí

Date: 4 March 2010

Doctors in the Iraqi city of Fallujah are reporting a high level of birth defects, with some blaming weapons used by the US after the Iraq invasion.

Date: 16 February 2010

A compilation of extracts featuring child-rights issues from the reports submitted to the first Universal Periodic Review. There are extracts from the 'National Report', the 'Compilation of UN Information' and the 'Summary of Stakeholder's Information'. Also included is the final report and the list of accepted and rejected recommendations.

Date: 21 January 2010

Date: 11 January 2010

The report is based on an October 2009 assessment in Jordan to look at the educational and skills-building needs and opportunities for Iraqi young women and men. This report aims to provide information and recommendations to assist the Government of Jordan, the international community and local agen

Date: 15 October 2009

Date: 15 October 2009

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Date: 11 May 2009

Children in nearly half of the primary schools in Iraq are studying in unsafe and unhealthy environments, according to a United Nations-backed survey that was released this week.The study, which was supported by the World Health Organization (WHO ) and conducted between 2007 and 2008, revealed that

Date: 30 April 2009

Women and children in Iraq are still coming under attack despite overall security improvements over the past year, a United Nations human rights report said on Wednesday."Gender-based violence is affecting women, children and young adults," the report by the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq

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Date: 29 January 2009

The vast majority of children living with HIV around the world lack access to HIV testing and treatment. We can do something about that. The Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance (EAA), in collaboration with partners around the world, are embarking on a year-long action with governments, pharmaceutical compa

Date: 28 January 2009

أطفال العراق بين الحاضر المؤلم والمستقبل المجهول

Date: 22 December 2008

[22 December 2008] - Massive forced civilian displacements, violence, and unmet medical needs in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Iraq, Sudan, and Pakistan, along with neglected medical emergencies in Myanmar and Zimbabwe, are some of the worst humanitarian and medical emergencies in the w

Date: 11 December 2008

بالعربية[CAIRO, 11 December 2008] A first official survey of Iraqi refugees in Egypt tentatively puts their number at 20,000. The product of a year’s field work and analysis by Egypt's Information and Decision Support Centre (IDSC) and the Americ

Date: 3 December 2008

[Baghdad, 2 December 2008] The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) issued today its 13th report on the human rights situation in the country covering the period 1 January – 30 June 2008. During the reporting period, Iraq has witnessed substantial improvements in general security

Date: 3 December 2008

الأمم المتحدة تفيد باستمرار انتهاكات حقوق الإنسا

Date: 3 December 2008

بالعربية[2 December 2008] Grave rights abuses persisted in Iraq during the first half of this year, including targeted killings of professionals, assaults on minorities, alleged widespread torture of detainees and attacks against women, despite great i

Date: 1 December 2008

This year's theme is 'Lead, Empower, Deliver'

Date: 20 November 2008

Although sandwiched between the Convention on the Right's of the Child's 18th and 20th birthdays, this year's Universal Children's Day, which falls on 20 November, has nonetheless been marked with a flurry of activity across the world. The World Organisation Against Torture

Date: 18 November 2008

بالعربيةCouncil resolution 7/3 asks that the High Commissioner for Human Rights consults with States, NGOs and others on how to better international cooperation and dialogue in the UN human rights machinery, including the Human Rights Council. The Comm

Date: 29 October 2008

العراق: ملايين الناس في خطر بسبب المياه الملوثة[جي&#16

Date: 29 October 2008

بـالعــربية[Geneva/Baghdad, 29 October 2008] - Inadequate healthcare and sanitation services in much of Iraq are putting millions of people at risk of disease, the International Committee of the Red Cross said today."There has be

Date: 6 October 2008

بالعربـــــــــــية[October 2008] The number of confirmed cholera cases has risen to 418 in central and southern Iraq, with six dead since an outbreak began on 20 August, a government sp

Date: 6 October 2008

العراق: أكثر من 400 إصابة مؤكدة بالكوليرا حتى الآن[بغد

Date: 4 October 2008

أطفال العراق في مقدمة ضحايا العنف والحكومة تنفي ا&#160

Date: 24 September 2008

العراق: برلمان الطفل ينادي بانقاذه[العراق- 32 سبتمبر 8

Date: 23 September 2008

العراق: مقتل واصابة ثمانية اطفال اثر انفجار قنبلة &#15

Date: 8 September 2008

العراق: الاطفال في السجون يتعرضون للاغتصاب والضر&#1576

Date: 8 September 2008

بالعربي[8 September 2008] - Hundreds of children, some as young as nine, are being held in appalling conditions in Baghdad's prisons, sleeping in sweltering temperatures in overcrowded cells without working fans, no daily access to showers, and subject to fr

Date: 3 September 2008

العراق: وزارة الصحة تؤكد حالات اصابة بالكوليرا[بغ&#158

Date: 3 September 2008

[Baghdad, 3 September 2008]- At least five cholera cases have been confirmed in Baghdad and the southern province of Maysan, due to soaring temperatures and rundown water plants, the Health Ministry said on 2 September. “Four cases have been confirmed in Baghdad and the fifth one has been conf

Date: 29 August 2008

الأردن: ورشة تشدد على ضرورة مراجعة موازنات الدول ل&#15

Date: 28 August 2008

عربي[Basra- 28 August 2008]  3-year-old child was announced dead of cholera in the Maysan province in southern Iraq, raising fears of spreading the disease throughout the country, a provincial medical source said on Thursday."Sajjad Farhan Zeki, died on Wednesday in

Date: 28 August 2008

العراق: وفاة طفل بمرض الكوليرا جنوب العراق[بغداد- 82 ا

Date: 4 August 2008

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Date: 31 July 2008

In Arabic[BAGHDAD, 29 July 2008] - Iraqi government institutions, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and international bodies must focus more on devising programmes for juveniles to prevent them from being co-opted by militants for criminal acts, a government spokesman said on 28 July. "We h

Date: 24 July 2008

العراق: مجلس النواب يبحث أوضاع حقوق الانسان في الع&#15

Date: 13 July 2008

العراق: تقييم النزوح الداخلي للعام 7002تعد منظمة الهج&

Date: 6 July 2008

الايدز وحقوق الإنسان- الحالة العراقيةدراسة اعدها

Date: 21 June 2008

الأطفال العراقيون اللاجئون في لبنان: "المهم أن نب&#1602

Date: 9 June 2008

In Arabic Baghdad- 2 May 2008- Independent and government reports have confirmed an increase in the number of orphaned and sexually abused children, as well as a rise in the number dropping out of school. And as the security situation has worsened of late, nongovernmental organizations warn against

Date: 9 June 2008

أطفال العراق: اعتداءات جنسية وإدمان ومعتقلونتؤكد

Date: 23 May 2008

الأزمة العالمية لارتفاع أسعار الغذاء في أبريل 8002 ش&#1

Date: 22 May 2008

[21 May 2008] - US military authorities, operating as the Multinational Forces in Iraq, were as of 12 May 2008 holding 513 Iraqi children as “imperative threats to security,” and have transferred an unknown number of other children to Iraqi custody. According to a recent report by the Un

Date: 21 May 2008

الولايات المتحدة: ينبغي احترام حقوق الأطفال المح&#1578

Date: 11 May 2008

العراق: كردستان في مواجهة وباء الكوليرابغداد- 8 ماي&#1

Date: 11 May 2008

Baghdad 7 May 2008, The Iraqi authorities in Kurdistan are gearing up to face a possible cholera outbreak which last year affected nearly 4,200 people, and caused the deaths of 24 nationwide, a local official said.We have allocated 25 billion Iraqi dinars (US$20 million) to fight any cholera outbrea

From Saturday, May 10, 2008 to Thursday, May 15, 2008

ورشة عمل يعنوان "حماية الطفل العراقي من العنف"يعق&

Date: 7 May 2008

نشرة حقوق الطفل # 5في هذا العدد:أوضاع حقوق الطفل في ال

Date: 6 May 2008

[6 May 2008] - It is increasingly hard for Iraqi aid workers to help tens of thousands of people caught up in fighting in Baghdad, according to UNICEF.The Sadr City area of the capital has seen the worst clashes between government forces and Shia militia. The UN children's agency says over 150,000 p

Date: 3 May 2008

الأطفال اللقطاء وقانون الأحوالي المدنية العراقي&

From Thursday, May 01, 2008 to Thursday, May 01, 2008

The Training of Trainers (ToT) programme is part of Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law’s (RWI) comprehensive regional programme in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) that aims to build the institutional capacity of organisations working to promote and protect

Date: 30 April 2008

نشرة حقوق الطفل # 4في هذا العدد:أوضاع حقوق الطفل في ال

Date: 26 April 2008

العراق: الأطفال العراقيون يعانون من أوضاع لا يمكن &#15

Date: 25 April 2008

In Arabic[25 April 2008] - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, in concluding her visit to Iraq of 20-25 April, stated that children of Iraq are the silent victims of the on-going violence.“Many of them no longer go to s

Date: 23 April 2008

نشرة حقوق الطفل في العالم  العربي # 3--------------------------في هذا العد&#158

Date: 20 April 2008

العراق: نتاج الحروب أكثر من مليون معاقصغار وكبار و&#16

Date: 17 April 2008

جينيف- 17 أبريل 2008- الأزمة العالمية للنزوح الداخلي تزا&#16

Date: 10 April 2008

تقرير العمل الإنساني لعام 8002يتناول تقرير العمل الإ&#

Date: 10 April 2008

[10 April 2008] -  Around 1,350 children are estimated to be detained in various Iraqi jails, UNICEF officials said in Dubai.Launching the Arabic version of the annual Humanitarian Action Report (HAR) in Dubai, Sigrid Kaag, UNICEF's regional director for the Middle East and North Africa, also c

Date: 9 April 2008

التجديد الأسبوعي العربي (2- 9 أبريل 8002)تصدر عن شبكة معلو&#

Date: 4 April 2008

In Arabic[3 April 2008] – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the entry into force of the first international treaty on the human rights of persons with disabilities, after the required twentieth country ratified the landmark Convention today. "It is a historic moment in our que

Date: 25 March 2008

[LONDON, 25 March 2008] - Teachers accused the Ministry of Defence on Tuesday of "exploiting" schools to find new recruits after the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan made it harder to sign up volunteers.Members of the National Union of Teachers said military visitors to schools pushed a partis

Date: 7 February 2008

[7 February 2008] - American forces in Baghdad yesterday warned of a "disturbing trend in the use and exploitation of children by al-Qaida in Iraq", after discovering videos showing young boys being trained in kidnapping and assassination.The discovery came as the US revealed that coalitio

Date: 7 February 2008

La cinta muestra a unos 20 niños, vestidos de negro y con pasamontañas, armados con pistolas, rifles y lanzagranadas.

Date: 8 January 2008

[8 January 2007] - Pakhshan Zangana, head of the women's caucus in the Iraqi Kurdish parliament in Arbil, says she is on the verge of pushing through a piece of legislation that will criminalise female genital mutilation (FGM). "Sixty-eight out of 120 deputies signed our bill, so

Date: 14 December 2007

[13 December 2007] - Discrimination threatens lives in emergencies, and governments and aid agencies should pay more attention to the needs of vulnerable groups who suffer most in disasters, the Red Cross said in a report released on Thursday. Crises worsen discrimination against the elderly, people

Date: 10 December 2007

[10 December 2007] - The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) will turn 60 on 10 December 2008. Human Rights Day 2007 will launch a year-long UN system-wide advocacy campaign to mark this important milestone. The theme of the campaign, which will be led by the High Commissioner for Human Rig

Date: 30 November 2007

This is an analysis of alternative reports that have included children.

Date: 20 November 2007

[20 November 2007] - The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is 18-years-old today. The symbolism of the anniversary has not been missed on NGOs and child rights advocates, who have highlighted the importance of the treaty on the day it attains adulthood. CRIN today launches a brand new sect

Date: 19 November 2007

[16 November 07] Child mortality in Iraq has spiralled because of the tense security situation, deteriorating health services and lack of medical supplies, say experts.According to a report released in May 2007 by aid agency Save the Children, “Iraq’s child mortality rate has increased b

Date: 19 November 2007

[19 November 2007] Two Iraqi orphans died of cholera last week in Baghdad, bringing the deaths from this disease nationwide to 23 since it first appeared in August, the Health Ministry said on 18 November. "The two boys - one died on 15 November and the other died a day earlier - were under 15

Date: 30 October 2007

[BAGHDAD, 29 October 2007] - Education specialists in Iraq are worried about the low school attendance of girls as it could create a huge educational gap. “The fear of losing their children through violence has led many families to keep their children at home but the number of girls kept at ho

Date: 26 October 2007

[BAGHDAD, 25 October 2007] - Iraqi NGOs have raised concerns about the condition of children in local prisons, saying they are abused and tortured during interrogation. "Children are being treated as adults in Iraqi prisons and our investigations have shown that they are being abused and tortur

Date: 17 October 2007

[17 October 2007] - More and more States worldwide are reforming their laws to prohibit all corporal punishment of children, including in their homes. A new report by the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children analyses the progress made towards prohibiting all corporal punishme

Date: 1 October 2007

[BAGDAD, 30 September 2007] - Schools across Iraq have reopened for the new academic term at the end of the summer holidays, after a decision by the education ministry not to wait until the end of Ramadan to resume classes. As millions of Iraqi schoolchildren prepared for their first day back after

Date: 25 September 2007

The UN Human Rights Council has now selected the first countries to be examined under the new Universal Periodic Review mechanism. The countries listed below will be reviewed over the course of next year's Council sessions. The UPR aims to ensure that the Council examines the human rights records of

Date: 19 September 2007

Nomination process for child delegates to participate in the Special Session follow up event to take place in New York on 11 and 12 December 2007. The selection process has been set up by UNICEF and the Global Movement for Children (GMC).

Date: 6 September 2007

Report submitted to the Third Committee of the 62nd Session of the UN General Assembly which will open on 18 September 2007.

Date: 24 August 2007

[23 de agosto de 2007] - Combatientes de Al Qaeda secuestraron a 15 mujeres y niños iraquíes luego de que militantes sunitas rivales repelieron el jueves su ataque a dos poblados en una feroz batalla en la que murieron 32 personas, dijo la policía. El enfrentamiento, infrecuente a semejante e

Date: 23 August 2007

[DAMASCUS, 23 August 2007] - Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children are failing to get an education in Syria after fleeing the violence back home. While Syria has given all Iraqis access to its education and health services, the sheer number of refugees seeking help mean most don't get what th

Date: 20 August 2007

The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has prepared a questionnaire on the new UN Disability Convention with a view to strengthening and improving the quality of the relationship between OHCHR and persons with disabilities and their representative organ

Date: 20 August 2007

La Oficina del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos (OACDH), les hace llegar este cuestionario con la intención de fortalecer y mejorar la calidad de la relación entre la OACDH y las personas con discapacidad así como sus organizaciones representantes. Se ha prepara

Date: 6 August 2007

[3 August 2007] – After weeks of appeals for the urgent medical evacuation from Iraq of seriously ill Palestinians, most of them children, the first four patients have been transported into Syria to receive much-needed medical aid.“We are pleased to report that Syrian authorities on Wedn

Date: 31 July 2007

[31 juillet 2007] - La violence armée est la principale menace à laquelle sont confrontés les Irakiens, mais la population connaît également un autre type de crise, d’une envergure et d’une gravité alarmante. Huit millions de personnes ont urgemme

Date: 31 July 2007

[31 July 2007] - The number of Iraqi children who are born underweight or suffer from malnutrition has increased sharply since the US-led invasion, according to a report by Oxfam and a network of about 80 aid agencies.The report describes a nationwide catastrophe, with around 8 million Iraqis - almo

Date: 30 July 2007

[30 juillet 2007] – Le Haut Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés (HCR) et le Fonds des Nations Unies pour l'enfance (UNICEF) ont publié aujourd'hui un appel conjoint d'un montant de 129 millions de dollars qui permettra à des dizaines de milliers d'enfan

Date: 20 July 2007

[DAMASCUS, 19 July 2007] - Iraqi refugees in Syria were urged this week by Craig Johnston, Deputy High Commissioner of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), to send more of their children to Syrian schools. Speaking to Iraqis at the UNHCR refugee centre in Damascus, Johnston, on his first tour of the regio

Date: 18 July 2007

[BAGDAD, 17 July 2007] - Depuis deux mois, Obeid Jaafar Khalifa, 52 ans, s’inquiète de savoir comment il réussira à s’occuper des quatre enfants de son frère défunt. M. Khalifa a déjà ses six enfants à charge. « Au total, j&rs

Date: 13 July 2007

[NEW YORK, 11 July 2007] - Iraqi refugee women and children are increasingly vulnerable to violence and abuse as challenges to their survival and well-being intensify daily, the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children found on a recent mission to Jordan. Refugees reported that domest

Date: 12 July 2007

[12 July 2007] - A revolutionary network has been set up to address child rights in Iraq.The Iraqi Child Rights Network held its inaugural general meeting in Sulaimanyah from17-19 June 2007. The organisation formally announced its establishment at the meeting. A group of Iraqi non-government or

Date: 3 July 2007

[BAGDAD, 2 juillet 2007] - Le Haut commissariat des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés (HCR) a appelé à l’évacuation immédiate d’au moins une dizaine de Palestiniens gravement malades, pour la plupart des enfants, certains étant à l&rs

Date: 2 July 2007

[GENEVA, 29 June 2007] – The UN refugee agency has issued an urgent plea for the immediate evacuation of at least a dozen seriously ill Palestinians – mostly young children – stuck in Baghdad or in a makeshift camp on the Iraqi side of the desert border with Syria."W

Date: 25 June 2007

[BAGHDAD, 25 June 2007] - Parents who have had to leave their children at care institutions have expressed outrage at the discovery of over 20 severely malnourished boys who had been left without proper care in a Baghdad orphanage last week. The 24 boys - most of whom are mentally handicapped and ag

Date: 25 June 2007

BAGDAD, 25 June 2007 (IRIN) - Des familles d’enfants confiés à des institutions censées s’en occuper se sont dites indignées par la découverte la semaine dernière d’une vingtaine de jeunes garçons sévèrement mal nourris

Date: 22 June 2007

[21 June 2007] - The Middle East is facing a refugee crisis of epic proportions – fleeing Iraqis comprise the single largest regional displacement of persons in the last half century. Two million Iraqis have flooded into neighboring countries, with Jordan and Syria bearing the brunt of this cr

Date: 21 June 2007

[BAGHDAD, 20 June 2007] - U.S. soldiers helped rescue 24 abused and severely malnourished boys this month from a Baghdad orphanage, where they were found in conditions of appalling squalor, the U.S. military said.Iraqi and U.S. soldiers were led to the Al-Hanan orphanage on June 10 by

Date: 12 June 2007

The 'Legislative History of the Convention on the Rights of the Child' is the result of ten years of work by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and Save the Children Sweden.Please be aware that this document, which comes in two volumes, may take some time to download.

Date: 4 June 2007

[KERBALA, 3 June 2007] - Shia Muslim tribes in Iraq’s southern provinces have begun setting up their own schools in an effort to prevent their children losing another academic year due to insecurity. Using empty mosques, the homes of tribal leaders and open areas, 21 temporary schools in Basra

Date: 25 May 2007

[BAGHDAD, 24 May 2007] - Mental health specialists say there has been an increase in domestic violence against children largely a result of the violence that has gripped Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003. They say the violence has affected people’s behaviour. “We have observed that

Date: 23 May 2007

23 mai 2007 – La situation des enfants iraquiens touchés par la violence et obligés de quitter leurs foyers a atteint un point critique, a déclaré le Fonds des Nations Unies pour l'enfance (UNICEF) aujourd'hui, qui a demandé 42 millions de dollars pour apport

Date: 23 May 2007

[23 May 2007] - Iraqi children are getting caught up in a growing humanitarian tragedy as violence continues in the country, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) has warned. Half of the four million Iraqis who have fled their homes since the conflict began are children. And the needs of children are outs

Date: 18 May 2007

On 17 May 2007, the first members of the Human Rights Council were elected. The Council consists of 47 members divided over five regional groups. Each member serves a three year term. At present the following States hold a seat in the Council:African States (13 out of 4

Date: 17 May 2007

[BAGHDAD, 16 May 2007] - Education specialists in Iraq say they are concerned that pupils and students in the current academic year will leave school without completing this year’s curriculum, and new graduates will not be competent to pursue their careers. “Violence and lack of resource

Date: 10 May 2007

[BAGHDAD, 9 May 2007] - The increase in drug abuse among children and youths in Iraq is worrying specialists who say continued violence is responsible for the rising number of users - something that is compounded by the easy availability of different narcotics. "Investigations by local NGOs sho

Date: 9 May 2007

[9 May 2007] - An attack by a US helicopter against suspected insurgents in Iraq has killed a number of children at a primary school, Iraqi security sources say. The attack took place in Diyala province north-east of Baghdad, according to reports. A spokesman for the US military said there had been

Date: 8 May 2007

[NAJAF/BASRA, 7 May 2007] - The increase in the number of displaced children in the southern governorates has left hundreds of students out of school, according to education departments in the south. "The most affected governorates are Najaf, Basra and Muthana where the number of displaced fami

Date: 4 May 2007

[2 May 2007] - Amnesty International has condemned as 'abhorrent' the stoning to death of a girl in a reported 'honour killing' in northern Iraq.The girl, Du'a Khalil Aswad, aged 17 and from the minority Kurdish Yezidi religious group, was stoned to death last month (on or around 7 April), apparentl

Date: 23 April 2007

[GENEVA, 18 April 2007] - Citing the consequences of rising security risks to Iraqi children and families, UNICEF last week asked for more support to the country’s most vulnerable, who are increasingly in danger of malnutrition and disease. “The humanitarian crisis is noth

Date: 19 April 2007

More than two million Iraqi refugees are trapped in a cycle of poverty and fear. Over half a million of these are of school-age children, many with no access to education or psychological support, according to research by World Vision. As leaders convene at the UN High Commission for Refugees confer

Date: 19 April 2007

[BAGHDAD, 19 April 2007] - Doctors are warning of a possible increase in diseases among children and the elderly as Iraq’s hot summer months begin. Dehydration, cholera and bacterial infections are of the greatest concern, they say. “The sewage and electrical systems in Iraq have complet

Date: 11 April 2007

[BAGHDAD, 10 April 2007] - The dreams 13-year-old Barak Muhammad (not his real name) had of leading a normal teenage life were dashed when his father sold him to al-Qaeda militants. Being mentally handicapped, he said he was considered a burden by his family and was told he would be better off sacri

Date: 11 April 2007

[11 de abril de 2007] - La organización terrorista Al Qaeda está utilizando a decenas de niños iraquíes con retrasos mentales en los atentados que realiza en Iraq, afirma un artículo de la Agencia IRIN de noticias, que depende de la Oficina de la ONU para la Coordinación de Asuntos Human

Date: 3 April 2007

[KIRKUK, 2 April 2007) - Nine children were among 12 people killed when a suicide bomber blew up a truck in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police say. A further 192 people were injured in the blast, which happened when a bomber drove a truck laden with explosives into a barrier at a police stati

Date: 8 March 2007

[8 March 2007] - Across the world today, one in every five girls of primary school age are not in school. When girls miss out, not only are they denied the chance to learn to read and write, earn a living and participate in democracy, it also puts their lives in jeopardy. Education gives w

Date: 5 March 2007

[BAGHDAD, 5 March 2007] - Apart from dodging bombs and bullets in their schools and neighbourhoods, children in Iraq are suffering from worryingly high levels of malnourishment, according to specialists.Poverty and insecurity are said to be the main causes of the children’s deteriorating diets

Date: 28 February 2007

[26 February 2007] - Religious and ethnic minorities in Iraq are facing unprecedented levels of violence, and in some cases, risk being eradicated completely from their ancient homeland, according to a new report from Minority Rights Group International. In a major survey of the plight of Iraq's min

Date: 19 February 2007

NEW YORK, Etats-Unis, 14 février 2007 - Les écoles sont en train de devenir des noyaux de stabilité d'une importance capitale en Iraq, grâce à un programme de rénovation appuyé par l'UNICEF. Le programme vise à prévenir la fermeture des &

Date: 12 February 2007

[BAGHDAD, 12 February 2007] - Violence in Iraq is tearing families apart and destroying the country’s economy, two major factors giving rise to a mass of marginalised street children, child specialists say. Once on the streets, children can easily fall prey to gangs involved in drugs, violence

Date: 31 January 2007

[NEW YORK, January 29, 2007] - Iraqis fleeing the violence in Iraq have sparked the fastest growing refugee crisis in the world, refugee advocates say, and is creating even greater instability in the region. The Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children urges the international communit

Date: 24 January 2007

[24 January 2007] – The United Nations refugee agency today called on the international community to aid Palestinians living in Iraq after 90 panic-stricken men, women and children fled Baghdad, reportedly headed on two rented buses towards the Syrian border, following an increasing spate of a

Date: 19 January 2007

[18 January 2007] – The United Nations agency entrusted with protecting the right to education today called on the Iraqi Government to do all in its power to stop the campaign of violence being waged against academics and intellectuals as typified by Tuesday’s bombing at a Baghdad univer

Date: 16 January 2007

[16 January 2007] – Nearly 6,400 Iraqi civilians were killed in the November-December period, slightly less than in the preceding two months, as rampant and indiscriminate killings, sectarian violence, extra-judicial executions – and impunity for the perpetrators – continued virtua

Date: 12 January 2007

[BAGHDAD, Iraq, 11th January 2007] - A year ago, a young gunman walked into Ali Hussein's living room and drew a weapon. The intruder's head was wrapped in a scarf, leaving a narrow slit for his eyes. His clothes were all black, the favourite attire of a powerful Shiite Muslim militia. He introduced

Date: 12 December 2006

Inquiets pour leur sécurité, élèves et professeurs désertent les établissements d'Iraq. Le système éducatif tout entier est menacé.

Date: 11 December 2006

[NEW YORK/GENEVA, 11 December 2006] – Eliminating gender discrimination and empowering women will have a profound and positive impact on the survival and well-being of children, according to a new UNICEF report issued on UNICEF’s 60th anniversary.Gender equality produces the “doubl

Date: 4 December 2006

[4 December 2006] - Life for ordinary Iraqis is now worse than under Saddam Hussein as the country descends into violence "much worse" than civil war, Kofi Annan has said. The Secretary General of the United Nations gave his hardest-hitting assessment yet of the present situation as he pre

Date: 29 November 2006

[AMMAN, 28 November 2006] – After fleeing violence and persecution in Iraq, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis living in Jordan face a daily threat of arrest, fines and deportation because the Jordanian government treats them as illegal immigrants rather than refugees, Human Rights Watch said in

Date: 19 November 2006

[BAGHDAD, 19 November 2006] - With insurgency and sectarian violence continuing to escalate in beleaguered Iraq, children are some of the most vulnerable. Facing limited healthcare and education as well as witnessing death and destruction on a daily basis has made their existence increasingly misera

Date: 13 November 2006

Amnesty International appelle le gouvernement irakien à rendre publiques les conclusions de son enquête dans ce qu’on a appelé en novembre 2005 l’affaire al Jadiriya ; un certain nombre de suspects placés en détention sous le contrôle du minist&egr

Date: 9 November 2006

World sanitation crisis causes millions of avoidable deaths, and contamination from human waste is largely to blame, says UNDP’s Human Development Report.

Date: 7 November 2006

[BAGHDAD, 7 November 2006] - Iraq’s healthcare system is continuing to deteriorate as not enough qualified staff or equipment is available, according to the Iraqi Medical Association (IMA).“Doctors are facing serious challenges, further exacerbated by poor resources offered by the govern

Date: 6 November 2006

L'ancien président irakien Saddam Houssein a été condamné à mort par pendaison, après avoir été reconnu coupable de crimes contre l'humanité.

Date: 3 November 2006

[BAGHDAD, 2 November 2006] - Some children have been recruited by insurgents to fight in Iraq, according to a prominent local NGO. The Iraq Aid Association (IAA) in Baghdad, which works with children suffering psychological trauma as a result of violence, said most child insurgents harbour

Date: 2 November 2006

First global study on cluster submunitions asualties: civilians account for 98 per cent of cluster munitions casualties.

Date: 1 November 2006

L'explosion d'une voiture piégée contre une réception de mariage a fait 23 morts dont 19 enfants à Bagdad.

Date: 31 October 2006

[AMMAN, 31 October 2006] - The Jordanian government and the United Nations children's agency (UNICEF) on Sunday denied claims that government health centres are refusing to vaccinate Iraqi children whose families are living in Jordan illegally. Officials from the Ministry of Health said all for

Date: 26 October 2006

[DUBAI, 26 October 2006] - Mariam, 16, relives the day her father in Baghdad sold her off as a domestic worker in one of the prosperous Gulf nations. Instead, she was forced into the sex trade.“I was a virgin and didn’t understand what sex was. I was told that they [the traffickers] were

Date: 24 October 2006

Young women fleeing war and poverty fall prey to sex traffickers.

Date: 19 October 2006

[BAGHDAD, 18 Oct 2006] - Thousands of students have been forced to stay at home due to escalating violence across the country. Attendance rates for the new school year, which started on 20 September, are a record low, according to the Ministry of Education. Recently released statistics from the Mini

Date: 12 October 2006

This global report was launched during the week of the presentation of the UN Study on Violence Against Children in New York on 12 October. The report is part of a submission to the Violence Study.

Date: 11 September 2006

[CAIRO, 10 September 2006] – Amid widespread sectarian violence in Iraq, Palestinian refugees in Iraq face particularly grave security threats, including targeted killings by mostly Shi`a militant groups and harassment by the Iraqi government, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today

Date: 24 August 2006

[24 August 2006] - The first day of school is a special day in the lives of children, but yesterday tens of thousands of kids in Jordan spent it at home. They are foreigners — mostly Iraqis — whom the government has not allowed to enrol because they lack residence permits. &nbs

Date: 9 August 2006

[BASRA, 8 August 2006] - Children who play in piles of rotting garbage throughout the city of Basra, some 550km south of Baghdad, are increasingly suffering from typhoid fever as well as fungal and bacterial skin diseases, doctors said. Up to 15 children per week come to the Children's Hospital

Date: 14 July 2006

The latest data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that 2,827 children and teens died from gunfire in the United States in 2003 - one child or teen about every three hours, nearly eight every day, 54 children and teens every week.

Date: 14 July 2006

Un informe de la organización defensora de los derechos de los niños denominada Protect Children, Not Guns revela que durante el 2003 unos 2 mil 827 menores de 20 años perdieron la vida por un arma de fuego en el país, que registró un promedio de 54 decesos por semana, más que el númer

Date: 11 July 2006

The project uses art and photographs to connect children in Iraq with children in the United States. It offers children, on both side of the exchange, an opportunity to express themselves and tell a personal story about their particular moment in history. It is an active, and ever expanding collection of art made especially for this project, and documenting photographs by project founder, and coordinator, Claudia Lefko.

Date: 10 July 2006

[BASRA, 9 July 2006] - NGOs devoted to health issues in southern Iraq say that dozens of children have died of relatively common diseases since January due to a lack of medicine. "There are no official statistics about the number of children who have died in Basra since January," said

Date: 14 June 2006

Date: 5 June 2006

Date: 5 June 2006

[BAGHDAD, 4 Jun 2006] - Nearly 180,000 Iraqis have now been displaced due to ongoing sectarian violence, an increase of about 80,000 from previous figures, said government officials.According to Mowafaq Abdul-Raof, a spokesman for the Ministry of Displacement and Migration, more than 17,000 families

Date: 2 June 2006

Date: 2 June 2006

Date: 19 May 2006

Report on a regional workshop held in Broummana-Lebanon between 28th September 2005 and 1st December 2005.

Date: 19 May 2006

Executive summary of a report on a regional workshop held in Broummana-Lebanon between 28th September 2005 and 1st December 2005.

Date: 19 May 2006

Executive summary of a report on a regional workshop held in Broummana-Lebanon between 28th September 2005 and 1st December 2005.

Date: 16 May 2006

[BAGHDAD, May 15] - Malnutrition among Iraqi children has reached alarming levels, according to a UN - backed government survey showing people are struggling to cope three years after US - forces overthrew Saddam Hussein. Nine per cent - almost one in 10 - of children aged between six months an

Date: 18 April 2006

[BAGHDAD, 18 April 2006] - Orphans in Iraq, who often lack protection, food supplies and medical assistance, require urgent assistance, according to officials at the Orphans Houses Department at the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs."Orphaned children have become a very serious issue,&

Date: 18 April 2006

[BAGHDAD, 18 April 2006] - The Iraqi juvenile justice system has suffered from neglect and disruption caused by 25 years of crises, according to officials at the UN's Children's Agency, UNICEF. In an effort to improve the situation, UNICEF has joined local NGOs to work with vulnerable and marginalis

Date: 12 April 2006

A European aid agency has reported a rise in child mortality in the southern Iraqi city of Basra where hospital care is said to be in crisis. Water-borne diseases and scarce medical supplies mean infants born in Basra are subject to abnormally high mortality rates, Saving Children from War said. One

Date: 5 April 2006

 Joint Workshop Held to Promote Non-Formal Education Strategies[BAGHDAD / AMMAN, 5 April 2006] - The needs of 600,000 Iraqi children who, for a variety of reasons, have missed out on their formal education, have just been addressed in a three-day workshop involving the United Nations Children&r

Date: 6 March 2006

 Des milliers de personnes détenues par la Force multinationale (FMN) en Irak, dirigée par les États-Unis, sont prises au piège dans un système de détention arbitraire qui bafoue leurs droits élémentaires, écrit Amnesty International dans

Date: 6 March 2006

Thousands of detainees being held by the US-led Multinational Force (MNF) in Iraq are trapped in a system of arbitrary detention that denies them their basic rights, Amnesty International said in a report published today. At the same time, there is increasing evidence of torture of detainees by the Iraqi security forces that the MNF underpins.

Date: 5 March 2006

 [BAGHDAD, 5 March 2006] - The Ministry of Interior has announced it will increase security measures to protect children from ongoing violence after a recent report cited shocking figures for children killed and injured in the past four months.  "We'll intensify security in schools an

Date: 24 January 2006

The country's main children's hospital is operating at less than one third of its full capacity after a bomb attack just over a month ago, say doctors.

Date: 18 January 2006

Terrorism and bombing campaigns, lawlessness, kidnapping and targeted killings continue to wreak havoc on civilians in Iraq, with the rights of women, children, detainees and religious leaders grievously violated, according to a new United Nations report.

Date: 12 December 2005

Ever since the enactment of new regulations after the fall of Saddam Hussein, the children of Iraqi women married to foreign nationals are no longer entitled to the same rights and services offered by the government to those of full Iraqi parentage.

From Wednesday, July 20, 2005 to Wednesday, February 05, 1969

This is the first detailed account of all non- combatants reported killed or wounded during the first two years of the continuing conflict. The report, published by Iraq Body Count in association with Oxford Research Group, is based on comprehensive analysis of over 10,000 media reports published between March 2003 and March 2005.

From Thursday, February 10, 2005 to Wednesday, February 05, 1969

The document details some of the key issues affecting children's rights in Iraq and provides recommendations to assist in fulfilling those rights.

From Thursday, December 09, 2004 to Wednesday, February 05, 1969

The report examines three of the most widespread and devastating factors threatening childhood today: HIV/AIDS, conflict, and poverty.

From Friday, October 15, 2004 to Wednesday, February 05, 1969

This UNICEF-supported survey finds that enrolment of Iraqi children is up but that facilities are not keeping pace - one quarter of Iraqi schools need major repairs.

From Tuesday, September 09, 2003 to Wednesday, February 05, 1969

The effects of war, economic sanctions and three years of severe drought (1999-2001) have seriously eroded the livelihoods base of Iraqis. Currently about 60 percent of the Iraqi population are unemployed and depend largely on public food rations.

From Tuesday, July 15, 2003 to Wednesday, February 05, 1969

This report concludes that the failure of Iraqi and U.S.-led occupation authorities to provide public security in Iraq's capital lies at the root of a widespread fear of rape and abduction among women and their families.

From Tuesday, March 04, 2003 to Wednesday, February 05, 1969

>1 million people are internally displaced in Iraq & 100s of 1000s have already fled. In a 01/2003 trip to Jordan, help for Iraqi refugees was poor & many don’t use UNHCR services for fear of Iraqi spies. Most Iraqis still in Iraq depend on the Iraqi state & family in Jordan/other countries for help. Disrupting these paths of help could be life- threatening.

From Wednesday, November 06, 2002 to Sunday, November 06, 2005

As the United Nations Security Council considers action in Iraq, the Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict urges you to include humanitarian factors in your deliberations, especially the impact of war on children.

Date: 9 October 1998

CRC/C/15/Add.94