Monthly Archives: November 2009

(27 Nov 09 – RV) It was a day of violence in Iraq yesterday as four people were killed and at least 32 others wounded in two separate bombings south of Baghdad yesterday. The attacks came on the eve of the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday, which begins today for Iraq’s Sunnis and Saturday for Shiites.…

By Otmar Oehring, Head of the Human Rights Office of Missio , and Güzide Ceyhan Ahead of the UN Human Rights Council May 2010 Universal Periodic Review of Turkey, Forum 18 News Service has found that the country continues to see serious violations of international human rights standards on freedom of religion or belief. A…

Norman Kember guardian.co.uk, Friday 27 November 2009 19.30 GMT Article historyFour years ago this week I was kidnapped in Baghdad. My trip to Iraq had been motivated by frustration at the government’s deafness to all voices of reasoned opposition to the war in Iraq. I went to meet Iraqis to reassure them that most people…

(27 Nov 09 – RV) It was a day of violence in Iraq yesterday as four people were killed and at least 32 others wounded in two separate bombings south of Baghdad yesterday. The attacks came on the eve of the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday, which begins today for Iraq’s Sunnis and Saturday for Shiites.…

Saturday 5th December 2009 Time: 9:00am – 7:30 pm St Elizabeth’s Church The Vineyard, Richmond TW10 6AQ There will be Carols, Organ music and Readings to celebrate the Birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. Carols in English and Arabic performed by:…

AFP A spate of attacks in Iraq killed five people and struck a church and a convent on Thursday, with one bomb at a busy market claiming two lives as shoppers stocked up for a Muslim feast and holiday.…

By Sgt. Neil W. McCabe Msgr. Imad Al Banna, the vicar of Iraq’s Chaldean Catholic patriarch in Basra, rings the Liberty Bell presented to him Nov. 7 at Camp Adder, Iraq by the commander of the Pennsylvania National Guard’s Combat Aviation Brigade. Earlier, the prelate celebrated a Mass dedicated to serving and fallen American soldiers.…

  Ethnic tensions and a dispute over control of oil fuel the violence in Kirkuk A conference is being held in Iraq examining how NI peace principles might be applied to the city of Kirkuk.Kirkuk is the centre of the northern Iraqi oil fields and is an ethnically mixed city populated by Kurds, Assyrians, Turkmen…

by Kelley B. Vlahos, November Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum How easy it is to declare Iraq “turned around” while an ancient people face the swirling desert sands of their own extinction. While it might sound a bit hyperbolic, there is no denying that the Christian minority…

by Kelley B. Vlahos, Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum How easy it is to declare Iraq “turned around” while an ancient people face the swirling desert sands of their own extinction.…

Photo: Afif Sarhan/IRIN An estimated 800,000 Christians are left in Iraq (file photo) BAGHDAD, 15 November 2009 (IRIN) – Iraq’s minority communities in the northern province of Nineveh have appealed to local and national authorities for protection amid warnings of an increase in attacks against them in the run-up to January’s national elections.…

The need for freedom is strong in every man, woman and child. Moreover, it is most strong in people who have none. Paul Batou, author of My Last Thoughts About Iraq, from Xilbris Corporation (www.paulbatou.com) knows this longing for freedom and has expressed it through his…

By Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — More than 20 months after the body of kidnapped Chaldean Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho of Mosul, Iraq, was recovered, Pope Benedict XVI approved the election of a new archbishop for the city.…

Vatican City, Nov 13, 2009 / 01:44 pm (CNA).- Catholics in the war-torn Archdiocese of Mosul, Iraq received good news on Friday when Pope Benedict approved Fr. Emil Shimoun Nona as the new Archbishop of Mosul. The archbishop-elect will replace Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho, who was kidnapped by militants last February and found dead two…

Nearly 32,000 Iraqi refugees have come to the United States over the past three years to escape violence and political uncertainty. But as Jeffrey Kaye reports, more refugees are learning that personal safety often comes at the cost of economic security JIM LEHRER: Now: the growing numbers of Iraqi refugees arriving in the United States.…

By SAM DAGHER ERBIL, Iraq — The policies and tactics of Kurdish authorities could expose minority groups in northern Iraq to “another full-blown human rights catastrophe” unless the minorities receive better protection, according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch.…

Source: Human Rights Watch (HRW) A longstanding territorial conflict in northern Iraq between the Arab-dominated central government in Baghdad and the Kurdistan Regional Government, mostly invisible to the outside world, threatens to erupt again. It risks creating another full-blown human rights catastrophe for the small minority communities who have lived…

By REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD (AP) – The ongoing dispute between Iraq’s central government in Baghdad and the Kurdish authorities in the country’s north threatens to create a “human rights…

By Nishant Dahiya Iraq’s minorities — including Yazidis, Shabaks, Turkoman and Assyrian Christians — face a “full-blown human rights catastrophe” as the long-festering territorial dispute between the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and the central government in Baghdad “threatens to erupt again,” Human Rights Watch reports.…

Yazidis, Shabaks, and Christians Caught in Kurdish-Arab Contest for Control (Erbil) – Iraq’s central government and the Kurdistan Regional Government should protect besieged minorities in the disputed territories of Nineveh province, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Human Rights Watch documented…