Gorilla’s Guides

Clandestine gun suppliers, funded by the U.S. and Iraqi governments, have flooded Iraq with a million weapons since 2003, charges a new Amnesty International investigation. Because of faulty or non-existent government tracking systems, many of those guns have gone missing, and some have turned up in the hands of insurgents.
Contracts with one of […]

Posted on September 24th, 2008 under Analysis Briefings Commentary, Features, Iraq, Middle East, Politics and Security. Tags: Amnesty International, Arms Trade. Comments: None

I take any job I can. We need the money.  I sometimes start at six in the morning and do not get back home until eight or nine at night. I have worked as a labourer, selling chai, cleaning shoes. We come from Ramadi, and I used to go to school there. I would like […]

Posted on June 16th, 2008 under Children, Human Rights, Iraq, Middle East, Society And Economy, War Crimes, Women and Children. Tags: Al Anbar (Governorate), Amnesty International, Baghdad, Child Exploitation, Child Poverty, Child Prostitution, Damascus, Death Squads, Deportations of refugees, Ethnic Cleansing, EU, Ghazaliyah, Hit, IDPs (Internal Refugees), Iraq, Jihad (District), Jordan, Khadra, Mahdi Army, Prostitution, Ramadi, Red Crescent/Red Cross, Refugees, Sweden, Syria, Women and Children. Comments: 1

خلاصة الاخبار

News Summary

أفادت مصادر أمنية أن ستة أشخاص قتلوا وأصيب 22 آخرون بجروح، فيما اعتقلت الأجهزة الأمنية ثلاثة من المطلوبين في إطار أعمال عنف وقعت في مناطق متفرقة من العراق خلال الـ 24 ساعة الماضية.
افادت مصادر امنية، ان شرطيا قتل واصيب ستة اشخاص بجروح، فيما اعتقلت قوات الامن 14 شخصا في اطار اعمال عنف وقعت […]

Posted on June 15th, 2008 under Iraq, Politics and Security. Tags: Amarah, American air attacks on civilian areas, American attacks on civilians, American War Crimes, American War Criminals (G.W. Bush), Amnesty International, Article 140, Assassinations, Attacks on academics students teachers, Attacks on green zone government officials, Attacks on judges and lawyers, Attacks on Polish invaders, Baghdad, Balad Roz, Bombings, Civilian casualties, Dalouiya, De Mistura, DeBa'athification (trials), Disputed Areas, Diyala, Economic disruption, Elections (Governorates), Iran, Khanaqin, Kirkuk, Mahdi Army Standdown, Maysan (Governorate), Mosul, Muqtada al-Sadr, Ninawa (Governorate), Peshmerga, PJAK, PKK, Sadrist Bloc, Salah ad Din (Governorate), Salah al-Obaidi, Sulaymaniyah, Tall Kayf, Turkey, Water. Comments: None

COPENHAGEN, May 24, 2008 (AFP) - Amnesty International’s Danish section has denounced the government for starting to expel Iraqis convicted of serious crimes, forcing them to return to to Iraq.
‘These expulsions are unacceptable and against international and even Danish conventions that forbid sending anyone back to a country where their safety is threatened,’ Lars Normann […]

Posted on May 24th, 2008 under Human Rights, Iraq. Tags: Amnesty International, Denmark, Refugees. Comments: None

INTRODUCTION
Five years after the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussain, Iraq is one of the most dangerous countries in the world. Hundreds of people are being killed every month in the pervasive violence, while countless lives are threatened every day by poverty, cuts to power and water supplies, food and medical shortages, and rising violence […]

Posted on March 18th, 2008 under Children, Human Rights, Iraq, War Crimes, Women and Children. Tags: Abu Ghraib, AFP reports, Amnesty International, Assassinations, Badr Brigade, Camp Bucca, Camp Cropper, Child Rape, Children, Christians, Civilian casualties, Death Penalty, Death Squads, Ethnic Cleansing, Human Rights, IDPs (Internal Refugees), Jaish al-Mahdi, Jordan, Journalists Attacked, KRG, Mahdi Army, Malnourishment, Massacres, Mercenaries, PKK, Rape, Refugees, Syria, Torture, UNHCR, Unlawful detention of civilains by American invader for, War Crimes, Women - "Honour" Killings, Women - attacks on, Women - killing of, Women and Children, Women's Rights. Comments: 1