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The ICRC has been improving its ability to do so. Magne Barth, the outgoing head of the ICRC delegation in Iraq, explains.</p> <p><strong>What is the situation in Iraq today and what are the ICRC’s priorities?</strong></p> <p>Iraq still faces a lot of challenges. The level of violence linked to the conflict is slowly decreasing, but its cost remains high in terms of civilian casualties. Central Iraq and Baghdad, especially, remain volatile, unpredictable and often dangerous due to acts of violence that still claim the lives of tens of persons every month. Meanwhile, the political process is still facing a lot of obstacles.</p> <p>The ICRC is expanding its humanitarian activities cautiously but deliberately. Our priority at the ICRC is to remain focussed on the areas and people most affected by the conflict and other violence. This means that we have to further expand our humanitarian work in the disputed territories and in the belt around Baghdad, giving priority to women heading households, physically disabled people, primary health in rural areas, displaced people and others who are not getting the services they are entitled to. The issue of missing persons continues to be one of our priorities.</p> <p>Furthermore, in line with our mandate, our work in behalf of detainees will continue to focus on conditions of detention and issues of treatment. The ICRC has generally good access, and this is an area in which we can talk to the authorities on how to improve compliance with international standards where necessary.</p> <p>As the country develops its great economic potential, the ICRC has scaled back and focused its assistance services. Nevertheless, we will continue to reach out to vulnerable groups and areas, and to provide the authorities with technical advice on how essential services can be improved. Increasingly, the ICRC is running medium- and long-term projects to help people make a living. The groups concerned include, for instance, women who are heading households, people with physical disabilities and displaced persons.</p> <p><strong>How do you see the situation on the Turkish and Iranian borders? What is the ICRC doing for the people affected?</strong></p> </blockquote></div> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/11/08/iraq-icrc-delivering-more-aid-where-it-is-needed-most/#more-13884" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-13625"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/07/05/international-committee-of-the-red-cross-iraq-activities-update/#comments" title="Comment on International Committee Of The Red Cross: Iraq Activities Update">1 Comment</a></span> Posted on July 5th, 2011 by Burhan Aydin</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/07/05/international-committee-of-the-red-cross-iraq-activities-update/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to International Committee Of The Red Cross: Iraq 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-supply/" rel="tag">water supply</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/water-treatment/" rel="tag">water treatment</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/zaidan/" rel="tag">Zaidan</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/zubair/" rel="tag">Zubair</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <div style="text-align: left; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr"> <p>Three decades of conflict have left hundreds of thousands of families struggling to find out what happened to their missing loved ones. Abandoning the search is not an option. Since 1980, the ICRC has spared no effort to put an end to their anguish. Operational update, March-May 2011. </p> <p>"Iraq is currently one of the countries with the highest number of missing persons and, as a result, with the highest number of families seeking information on their missing relatives," said ‘Dika Dulic’, the ICRC delegate in charge of issues relating to missing persons in Iraq. A lack of clear statistics, however, makes it difficult to accurately establish the true size of the problem.</p> <div style="border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-left: black 1px solid; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; padding-left: 5px; width: 48%; padding-right: 5px; float: right; border-top: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid; padding-top: 5px"> <h3>How do I report my relative as a missing person?</h3> <p>The Ministry of Human Rights is responsible for collecting information about any person reported missing in connection with armed conflict or internal violence. The ministry has offices in each Iraqi governorate. In northern Iraq, the Ministry of Anfal is in charge of this issue.</p> <p>The Department for missing persons, prisoners of war and human remains has two hotline numbers: <br/>+964 781 375 7020 <br/>+964 781 375 7021 <br/>and can also be contacted by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/mailto:d.mom-mhr@humanrights.gov.iq">e-mail</a></p> <p>Information provided by Basra’s Al-Zubair Centre on soldiers exhumed or otherwise known to be dead can be found on the Ministry of Human Rights website: <br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://www.humanrights.gov.iq /">www.humanrights.gov.iq</a>  You can also contact Al Zubair Centre directly.</p> <p>If you believe that one of your relatives has been killed, you can contact Baghdad’s Medico-Legal Institute by telephone: <br/>+964 78 137 57 655 or by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/mailto:mli_bag41@yahoo.com">e-mail</a></p> <p>In an effort to alleviate the agony of those still waiting for news, the ICRC, in its role as a neutral intermediary, facilitates dialogue between the parties involved in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War and in the 1990-1991 Gulf War, who have an obligation under international humanitarian law to account for those who went missing.Baghdad resident Hayat has led a sad life since her husband disappeared on 8 April 2003. "I lost hope," she said. "In the past nine years I have searched every prison. I ended up convincing myself that my husband Abdallah must have died."</p> <p>In an effort to alleviate the agony of those still waiting for news, the ICRC, in its role as a neutral intermediary, facilitates dialogue between the parties involved in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War and in the 1990-1991 Gulf War, who have an obligation under international humanitarian law to account for those who went missing.</p> </p></div> <p>Baghdad resident Hayat has led a sad life since her husband disappeared on 8 April 2003. "I lost hope," she said. "In the past nine years I have searched every prison. I ended up convincing myself that my husband Abdallah must have died."</p> <p>In April, the remains of 17 Iranian soldiers killed in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War were handed over from the Iraqi to the Iranian authorities under ICRC auspices at the Shalamja border crossing, near Basra.</p> <p>As a neutral intermediary, the ICRC facilitates the dialogue between the parties who were involved in the Iran-Iraq war and the Gulf war and who carry the responsibility to clarify the fate of persons still unaccounted for. This includes: <br/>supporting authorities in the collection of information <br/>facilitating transmission of information between the parties chairing meetings <br/>facilitating joint missions in the field and the handover of human remains</p> <p>The ICRC continues to provide training and other support for the Ministry of Human Rights, Basra’s Al-Zubair Centre of Iraq and Baghdad’s Medical-Legal Institute.</p> <h4>Bringing aid to people facing hardship</h4> <p>Many people in Iraq are still struggling to earn a living and support their families. Between March and May, the ICRC:</p> <p>Distributed over 8 million Iraqi Dinars through cash-for-work scheme, to 450 vulnerable displaced people and residents of Deralok in Dohuk governorate; <br/>Awarded 108 grants to disabled people and women-headed households in Ninawa, Kirkuk, Basra, Missan, Erbil, Baghdad and Sulaimaniya, enabling them to start small businesses and regain economic self-sufficiency. <br/>Distributed individual food and hygiene parcels, including essential household items, to 2475 internally displaced households, benefiting some 14850 people, in the group settlements of Ninawa, Kirkuk and Wasit;</p> <p>Following heavy rainfalls and consequential flooding in Ninawa, Erbil and Salah Al-Din governorates in April, the ICRC assisted affected/displaced households, distributing: 4984 blankets, 634 towels, 1340 hygiene parcels, 1315 tarpaulins, 317 kitchen sets, <br/>763 food parcels, and 11.1 metric tons of rice. The ICRC assistance also reached families affected by the floods in Rabea and Baaj districts.</p> <h4>Assisting health-care facilities</h4> </p></div> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/07/05/international-committee-of-the-red-cross-iraq-activities-update/#more-13625" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-13593"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/06/28/iraq-icrc-maintains-independent-humanitarian-effort-for-camp-ashraf-residents/#respond" title="Comment on Iraq: ICRC maintains independent humanitarian effort for Camp Ashraf residents">No Comments</a></span> Posted on June 28th, 2011 by Nur Hussein Ghazali</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/06/28/iraq-icrc-maintains-independent-humanitarian-effort-for-camp-ashraf-residents/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Iraq: ICRC maintains independent humanitarian effort for Camp Ashraf residents">Iraq: ICRC maintains independent humanitarian effort for Camp Ashraf residents</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/category/iraq/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag">News</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/camp-ashraf/" rel="tag">Camp Ashraf</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/icrc/" rel="tag">ICRC</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/international-committee-of-the-red-cross/" rel="tag">international committee of the red cross</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/mko/" rel="tag">MKO</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/monafiqeen-e-khalq-mko/" rel="tag">Monafiqeen-e-Khalq (MKO)</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/pmoi/" rel="tag">PMOI</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/red-crescentred-cross/" rel="tag">Red Crescent/Red Cross</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/repatriation/" rel="tag">repatriation</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <div style="text-align: left; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr"> <blockquote> <p>Baghdad (ICRC) – Despite recent statements by the Iraqi authorities suggesting that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) would be part of a committee overseeing the closure of Camp Ashraf, no such role is foreseen by the ICRC.</p> <p>"The ICRC will not be part of a committee reportedly being formed to close down Camp Ashraf," said Magne Barth, head of the ICRC delegation in Iraq. "However, the ICRC will continue its humanitarian work on behalf of the residents and their families on an independent basis."</p> </blockquote></div> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/06/28/iraq-icrc-maintains-independent-humanitarian-effort-for-camp-ashraf-residents/#more-13593" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-13278"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/05/06/syria-joint-red-cross-red-crescent-team-reaches-violence-stricken-daraa/#respond" title="Comment on Syria: joint Red Cross Red Crescent team reaches violence-stricken Daraa">No Comments</a></span> Posted on May 6th, 2011 by Diya al din</div> <h3><a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/wp-content/uploads/image2.png"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" align="left" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106im_/http://gorillasguides.com/wp-content/uploads/image_thumb2.png" width="204" height="223"/></a>Geneva (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/home!Open" target="_blank" class="external">ICRC</a>) – A 15-member team from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies entered the southern Syrian city of Daraa, yesterday 5 May.</p> <p>The team, which includes a doctor and first-aid volunteers, was accompanied by two trucks carrying about 32 cubic metres of drinking water and two other trucks loaded with food parcels, baby milk and medical supplies.</p> </p></div> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/05/06/syria-joint-red-cross-red-crescent-team-reaches-violence-stricken-daraa/#more-13278" class="more-link">» أقرأ التفاصيل .. | Read the rest of this entry »</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12960"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/04/05/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d9%85%d9%84-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b4%d8%a4%d9%88%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%ac%d8%aa%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%b9%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%83%d8%ab%d8%b1-%d9%85%d9%86-3-%d9%85%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%8a/#respond" title="Comment on العمل والشؤون الاجتماعية: اكثر من 3 ملايين امرأة تكافح مع أطفالها للبقاء على قيد الحياة في العراق">No Comments</a></span> Posted on April 5th, 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src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106im_/http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5303/5593516778_bc419ac441_o.jpg" width="350" align="left"/></a> <p>كشفت وزارة العمل والشؤون الإجتماعية،اليوم الثلاثاء،عن وجود اكثر من 3 ملايين امرأة تكافح مع أطفالها للبقاء على قيد الحياة في العراق. <br/>وقال الوزير نصار الربيعي في تصريح صحفي "إن عدد النساء المعيلات يتجاوز 3 ملايين امرأة وفقا لإحصائيات وزارة التخطيط" ، مشيرا الى "أن دائرة الرعاية الإجتماعية التي تتكفل بدفع رواتب للنساء المعيلات كانت مرتبطة بوزارة العمل، إلا أنه تم فصلها قبل عامين عن الوزارة وربطها بمجلس الوزراء". <br/>وتابع "ان الاسباب غير واضحة وقد تكون أسبابا انتخابية تم على اثرها ربط دائرة الرعاية الاجتماعية والتقاعد بمجلس الوزراء "،حسب قوله. <br/>واوضح الربيعي "أن وزارة العمل والشؤون الإجتماعية تقوم بتوفير الرواتب الشهرية وتزويد دائرة الرعاية الإجتماعية بها فقط من دون أن تتدخل بالبرامج الموضوعة لزيادة رواتب النساء المعيلات أو تحسينها" ، مؤكدا "أن وزارته تعمل على إعادة الدائرتين للوزارة من اجل توفير برامج لرفع مستوى دخل النساء المعيلات وتحسينها". <br/>من جانبها ذكرت بعثة اللجنة الدولية للصليب الأحمر في العراق وجود اكثرمن مليون أسرة في العراق تعيلها نساء منذ عام 1980 ولاسباب مختلفة. <br/>وافادت كارولين دوييه التي تدير برنامج (النساء والحرب) في البعثة إنه بغض النظر عن ظروف الخسارة فإن مجرد غياب المعيل التقليدي يؤثر مباشرة على وضع العائلة المادي". <br/>واضافت "ان ملاحظات اللجنة الدولية في أنحاء العراق قادتنا إلى الاستنتاج المؤلم بأن غياب الموارد الكافية والمنتظمة على مدى السنوات الماضية ألقت بالكثير من العائلات في فقر مدقع".</p> </p></div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12754"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/03/17/red-cross-pulls-out-of-benghazi-amid-safety-concerns/#respond" title="Comment on Red Cross pulls out of Benghazi amid safety concerns">No Comments</a></span> Posted on March 17th, 2011 by Maryam</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/03/17/red-cross-pulls-out-of-benghazi-amid-safety-concerns/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Red Cross pulls out of Benghazi amid safety concerns">Red Cross pulls out of Benghazi amid safety concerns</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/category/human-rights/" title="View all posts in Human Rights" rel="category tag">Human Rights</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/benghazi/" rel="tag">Benghazi</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/international-committee-of-the-red-cross/" rel="tag">international committee of the red cross</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/libya/" rel="tag">Libya</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/red-crescentred-cross/" rel="tag">Red Crescent/Red Cross</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/tobruk/" rel="tag">Tobruk</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p> </p> <blockquote><p>The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has pulled its workers out of Benghazi owing to concerns for their safety, as forces loyal to Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi made a push Thursday towards the rebel-held city. </p> <p>The ICRC has been unable to enter Libya’s west, as Gaddafi’s government said their assistance was not needed, but aid workers did go into the country late last month from the east, where they were accepted by the rebels’ transitional government in Benghazi. </p> <p>The ICRC handed over to the Libyan Red Crescent all its food and medical supplies before its aid team retreated to the more eastern town of Tobruk, closer to the border with Egypt. </p> <p>‘We are extremely concerned about what will happen to civilians, the sick and wounded, detainees and others,’ said Simon Brooks, head of the ICRC mission in Libya. </p> <p>‘We will remain in dialogue with both parties with a view to returning to Benghazi and the western part of the country when the security situation permits,’ Brooks said, as the team departed late Wednesday from what has become the de-facto capital of the anti- Gaddafi rebellion. </p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/africa/news/article_1626790.php/Red-Cross-pulls-out-of-Benghazi-amid-safety-concerns" class="external" target="_blank">Red Cross pulls out of Benghazi amid safety concerns</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12739"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/03/15/iraq-icrc-to-expand-initiative-to-alleviate-hardship-and-restore-dignity/#comments" title="Comment on Iraq: ICRC to expand initiative to alleviate hardship and restore dignity">1 Comment</a></span> Posted on March 15th, 2011 by Diya al din</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/03/15/iraq-icrc-to-expand-initiative-to-alleviate-hardship-and-restore-dignity/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Iraq: ICRC to expand initiative to alleviate hardship and restore dignity">Iraq: ICRC to expand initiative to alleviate hardship and restore dignity</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, Tags: <a 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sanitation/" rel="tag">sanitation</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/unemployment/" rel="tag">unemployment</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/women-poverty-of/" rel="tag">women - poverty of</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%ac%d9%85%d8%b9%d9%8a%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d9%84%d9%8a%d8%a8-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%87%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%ad%d9%85%d8%b1/" rel="tag">جمعية الصليب والهلال الاحمر</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>Geneva/Baghdad (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/home!Open" class="external" target="_blank">ICRC</a>) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has announced plans to expand its micro-grant initiative in Iraq following a trial period, which saw hundreds of disadvantaged Iraqis start their own businesses and begin earning much-needed income.</p> <div style="border-right: black 1px solid; padding-right: 5px; border-top: black 1px solid; padding-left: 5px; float: right; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; border-left: black 1px solid; width: 300px; padding-top: 5px; border-bottom: black 1px solid"> <p>The International Committee of the Red Cross have news footage for this story at the following link: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://www.icrcvideonewsroom.org/content/index.asp?ID=vu585u7.5c1344q1w422i343.42&category=Latest%20News,%20Middle%20East," class="external" target="_blank">Iraq’s  forgotten citizens</a>.</p> <p>As well as the following related sections:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://www.icrc.org/eng/what-we-do/ensuring-economic-security/index.jsp" class="external" target="_blank">Ensuring economic security</a> </li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/maps/middle-east-and-the-north-africa/index.jsp" class="external" target="_blank">Maps of ICRC operations in the Middle East and North Africa</a> </li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://www.icrc.org/eng/where-we-work/middle-east-north-africa/iraq/index.jsp" class="external" target="_blank">The ICRC in Iraq</a> </li> </ul></div> <p>Decades of armed conflict, ongoing violence and high unemployment have left millions of men and women in Iraq struggling to make ends meet and care for their families. Basic services such as health care, the supply of clean drinking water and sanitation remain largely inaccessible outside large population centres. In many places, very little funding and few services are available to help needy people.</p> <p>"People who are displaced, out-of-work or disabled find it particularly hard to get by, while the elderly and women heading households are also among those worst affected," said Dusan Vukotic, the head of a micro-economic grant programme run by the ICRC. "Despite certain improvements in many parts of Iraq and the authorities’ efforts to enhance basic services, disadvantaged people struggle to feed their families and continue to depend, to some extent, on outside help. Small income-generating activities, like running a shop or working as a hairdresser, started through micro grants can ease their hardship and restore their hope."</p> <p>An estimated one million women are shouldering the burden of caring for their families alone because their husbands have been killed or arrested, or have gone missing. In addition, tens of thousands of men and women around the country have been disabled by war injuries. "People with disabilities find it hard to find work, not only because of their physical impairment but also because of social stigma," said Mr Vukotic. "Women have fewer employment opportunities than men."</p> <p>In an effort to help needy Iraqis get back on their feet and create ways to support themselves and their families, the ICRC launched its micro-grant initiative in 2008. The programme has so far made over 800 grants enabling almost 5,000 people in Baghdad, Ninewa, Kirkuk, Diyala, Basra-Missan, Erbil, Dohuk and Sulaimaniya governorates to set up businesses. "This has done more than just help disadvantaged people generate much-needed income. It has also helped restore some of their dignity and improve their chances of leading a better life," said Mr Vukotic.</p> <p>Hassan Majid Rasoul, a roadside salesman who was given a small grant to buy a motor cart, happily recalls his story. "After I got this motorbike, my financial situation improved. I earn between 40,000 and 50,000 Iraqi dinars (about 42 US dollars) a week. There is enough money for the family," he said. "The change is that now I can go out and sell things by myself, not like before when I just had to sit with my children. I can sell chickens and afterwards take my grandchildren out on the bike for a ride, just for fun."</p> <p>The ICRC is looking forward to expanding the grant programme in 2011 so that even more people will benefit, particularly in the areas hardest hit by violence.</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/news-release/2011/iraq-news-2011-03-14.htm" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq: ICRC to expand initiative to alleviate hardship and restore dignity</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12298"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/02/02/%d9%87%d9%8a%d9%88%d9%85%d9%86-%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%8a%d8%aa%d8%b3-%d9%88%d9%88%d8%aa%d8%b4-%d8%aa%d8%aa%d9%87%d9%85-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%83%d8%aa%d8%a8-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%b3%d9%83%d8%b1%d9%8a-%d9%84/#respond" title="Comment on هيومن رايتس ووتش تتهم المكتب العسكري 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لرئيس وزراء حكومة المنطقة الخضراء تدير مركز اعتقال سري في العاصمة بغداد. واضافت المنظمة ان تلك القوات تقوم بتعذيب المعتقلين في موقع آخر لا يخضع لأية مراقبة مشيرة الى ان السلطات العراقيّة قامت بنقل أكثر من 280 معتقلا إلى موقع سري يقع داخل معسكر العدالة شمال غرب بغداد. وكشفت المنظمة ان الموقع السري يخضع لإدارة كل من لواء بغداد وجهاز مكافحة الإرهاب وكلاهما يخضعان لمكتب نوري المالكي. وقال جو ستورك نائب مدير قسم الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا في المنظمة إن الكشف عن وجود سجون سرية في قلب بغداد يناقض كليا وعود الحكومة العراقية باحترام حكم القانون مشيرا إلى ضرورة أن تقوم الحكومة بغلق هذه المواقع وإخضاعها لإدارة النظام القضائي وتحسين ظروف الاعتقال فيها ومعاقبة كلّ من كانت له يد في ارتكاب أعمال تعذيب.</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12295"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/02/01/iraq-secret-jail-uncovered-in-baghdad-human-rights-watch/#respond" title="Comment on Iraq: Secret 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by the military office of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of Iraq are operating a secret detention site in Baghdad, Human Rights Watch said today. The elite forces are also torturing detainees with impunity at a different facility in Baghdad, Human Rights Watch said.</p> <p>Beginning on November 23, 2010, and continuing over the next three to four days, Iraqi authorities transferred more than 280 detainees to a secret site within Camp Justice, a sprawling military base in northwest Baghdad, interviews and classified government documents obtained by Human Rights Watch reveal. The Army’s 56th Brigade, also known as the Baghdad Brigade, and the Counter-Terrorism Service, both under the authority of the prime minister’s office, control this secret site. The hurried transfers took place just days before an international inspection team was to examine conditions at the detainees’ previous location at Camp Honor in the Green Zone. Human Rights Watch has also obtained a list of more than 300 detainees held at Camp Honor just before the transfer to Camp Justice. Almost all were accused of terrorism.</p> <p>"Revelations of secret jails in the heart of Baghdad completely undermine the Iraqi government’s promises to respect the rule of law," said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. "The government needs to close these places or move them under control of the justice system, improve conditions for detainees, and make sure that anyone responsible for torture is punished."</p> <p>The Iraqi government should immediately close the facilities or regularize their position and make them open for inspections and visits, Human Rights Watch said.</p> <p>Approximately 80 of the 280 detainees are being held by the 56th Brigade at the secret site at Camp Justice and have had no access to lawyers or family members. Prison inspectors are not permitted to conduct visits to the section of the facility controlled by the 56th brigade, prompting fresh concerns that the brigade may be torturing detainees. According to government sources, the Counter-Terrorism Service is holding the 200 remaining transferred detainees, although the 56th Brigade maintains primary responsibility for security at the site in Baghdad’s Kadhmiya neighborhood.</p> <p>In one of the 18 documents obtained by Human Rights Watch, a letter from the prosecutor’s office of the Higher Judicial Council asks the Office of the Prime Minister to instruct officials at the Camp Justice site to stop preventing prison inspectors and relatives from visiting detainees. The letter, dated December 6, 2010, says such a refusal "meets neither legal nor humanitarian standards, unless [the refusal is] specifically ordered by a judge at a specialized court."A second letter, dated January 13, 2011, from the justice minister to the Office of the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, through which the prime minister controls Iraqi security forces, stated that a 56th Brigade officer prevented prison inspectors from the Human Rights Ministry from visiting the site.</p> <p>The secret detention site is located within a legitimate Justice Ministry detention facility at Camp Justice, known as Justice 2 (Sijn al-Adaleh 2), which holds just over 1,000 other detainees. Camp Justice is the site of the former "Fifth Department" (al-Sha’ba al-Khamsa) intelligence office notorious during the rule of Saddam Hussein for torture and disappearances. The former dictator was executed there in 2006.</p> <p>Camp Honor, from which the detainees were transferred, became the subject of media scrutiny on January 23, after the <em>Los Angeles Times</em> uncovered abuse there and described the conditions as "miserable." The article said detainees were held in cramped windowless cells that reeked of human excrement.</p> <p>Recent interviews by Human Rights Watch of more than a dozen former detainees from Camp Honor had documented how detainees are held incommunicado and in inhumane conditions, often for months at a time. Detainees described in detail the wide ranging abuses they endured during interrogation sessions at the facility, usually to extract false confessions. They said interrogators beat them, hung them upside down for hours at a time, administered electric shocks to various body parts, including the genitals, and asphyxiated them repeatedly with plastic bags put over their heads until they passed out.</p> <p>In interviews with Human Rights Watch in December, former detainees described the abuse at Camp Honor: </p> <ul> <li>One detainee said on December 26 that: "The cell was so crowded that we had to take turns standing and lying down, and would try to let someone lie down if they were an old man, or especially if they had just been brought back from interrogation. Then we usually could not stand." </li> </ul> <ul> <li>Another said on December 18 that: "I was blindfolded and put on the floor, face-down with my hands tied tightly behind my back. The interrogator stepped on my arms, and put more and more weight down on them until I was screaming." </li> </ul> <ul> <li>A third detainee, who had been held in Camp Honor the summer of 2010, said in a December 27 interview that: "My hands were tied over my head and my feet were put in water, then they shocked me in my head and my neck and my chest. The interrogators beat me repeatedly and told me that they would go to my house and rape my sister if I did not sign a confession, so I did. I did not even know what I was confessing to." </li> </ul> <p>In response to the <em>Los Angeles Times</em> article, which said Camp Honor is run by the 56th Brigade and the Counter-Terrorism Service, Iraq’s deputy justice minister, Busho Ibrahim, told Agence France-Presse on January 24 that his ministry alone controlled the site.</p> <p>"It is my responsibility, and I deny all these accusations – they are all lies," he said. "Families can visit their sons or husbands, lawyers can visit them regularly. It’s like any other prison run by the Justice Ministry."</p> <p>He reiterated, "It is not true that it follows Maliki’s orders – it is run by the Justice Ministry."</p> <p>However, documents obtained by Human Rights Watch refute government claims that Camp Honor is controlled by the Justice Ministry. In one classified document dated August 2, 2010, the former justice minister, Dara Nour al-Din, requested that his staff obtain approval from the Office of the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces to transfer detainees from Camp Honor, demonstrating the ministry’s subordinate role at the facility.</p> <p>In the note to his staff, the justice minister asks them to write a letter to the Office of the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces "requesting permission for custody of the prisoners to be turned over" to the ministry so they can be transferred elsewhere. The document indicates that the issue arose after Deputy Justice Minister Ibrahim acknowledged that his ministry could not transfer detainees due to external interference, particularly from military interrogators.</p> <p>Another document, from October 2010, signed by Ibrahim himself, says the ministry "has no objection to allowing lawyers and families to visit detainees" at Camp Honor but that, "it is only the tough security measures implemented by the Defense Ministry/56th Brigade section [of the prison] and the Counter-Terrorism administration section, and also the location of the prison in the Green Zone, that has prevented this."</p> <p>In response to the <em>Los Angeles Times</em> article, Ibrahim also said that the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) had visited the Camp Honor prison. But when contacted by Human Rights Watch, the ICRC spokesperson, Graziella Leite Piccolo, said that ICRC had not been able to visit Camp Honor because the government had not met the organization’s criteria for such site visits, including access to the entire facility and its detainees.</p> <p>"It is important to note that, even if we had been able to visit, a visit alone is not a certificate of validation, but part of a process," she said. Government sources told Human Rights Watch that authorities have prevented the Human Rights Ministry from conducting any prison inspections at Camp Honor for more than a year.</p> <p>Several government sources said that although the 56th Brigade, and its sibling, the 54th Brigade, technically fall under Defense Ministry administration, the brigades’ chain of command bypass the ministry. They do not report to the defense minister or army chief of staff, but instead to Maliki through the Office of the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. Through this office, the prime minister also controls the Counter-Terrorism Service, which falls under no ministry and is not governed by any legislation. The Counter-Terrorism Service works closely with US Special Forces.</p> <p>Military officers and officials from both the Defense and Interior ministries told Human Rights Watch that the 56th Brigade and the Counter-Terrorism Service routinely conduct operations, including mass arrests and detentions, without notifying the security ministries. A high-level Interior Ministry officer told Human Rights Watch on December 18 that these units "create confusion and a dangerous atmosphere where special units who have a separate authority storm in and take people." The official said that regular security forces were afraid of these elite forces.</p> <p>Another official, from the Defense Ministry, told Human Rights Watch on January 23 that contrary to the usual practice, in which security forces process detainees through the main prison system, the 56th and 54th Brigades often refuse to give up their prisoners.</p> <p>"Their families and lawyers cannot visit them," he said, "and sometimes cannot even find out if they are dead or alive."</p> <p>Defense Ministry officials interviewed by Human Rights Watch said there is close cooperation between the 56th and 54th Brigades, commonly referred to by military and police as "Maliki’s forces." Prisoners arrested and initially held in the prison run by one brigade are often transferred to the prison run by the other.</p> <p>An Interior Ministry official told Human Rights Watch on January 13 that "people come to police stations or prisons looking for their family members who have been arrested. If we find out they were taken by Maliki’s forces, we don’t get any information about them or have jurisdiction to do anything."</p> <p>Last year, the Human Rights Ministry uncovered a secret prison run by the 54th Brigade, with the assistance of the 56th Brigade, in the old Muthanna airport in Western Baghdad. In April, Human Rights Watch interviewed 42 detainees who had been tortured at this facility over a period of months. The secret prison held about 430 detainees who had no access to their families or lawyers. The prisoners said security forces personnel kicked, whipped, and beat them, asphyxiated them, gave them electric shocks, burned them with cigarettes, and pulled out their fingernails and teeth. They said that interrogators sodomized some detainees with sticks and pistol barrels. Some young men said they had been forced to perform oral sex on interrogators and guards, and that interrogators forced detainees to molest one another sexually.</p> <p>A US Embassy cable viewed by the <em>Los Angeles Times</em> stated that 56th Brigade interrogators had been sent to Muthanna from Camp Honor. A separate cable said the brigade "reports directly to the prime minister’s office."</p> <p>At the time, Maliki described the prison at Muthanna as a transit site under the control of the Defense Ministry.</p> <p>However, a high-ranking Defense Ministry official distanced his ministry from the allegations of torture at Muthanna. In a classified letter to the Human Rights Ministry dated May 3, 2010, and seen by Human Rights Watch, Saleh Sarhan, general secretary to the defense minister, wrote: "Our ministry has no relationship with those military investigation committees nor to the Sur Ninewa [Muthanna] Detention Center, because both are attached to the Office of the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces."</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2011/02/01/iraq-secret-jail-uncovered-baghdad" class="external" target="_blank">Iraq: Secret Jail Uncovered in Baghdad | Human Rights Watch</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12195"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/01/13/enforced-disappearances-a-long-term-challenge/#respond" title="Comment on Enforced disappearances – "a long-term challenge"">No Comments</a></span> Posted on January 13th, 2011 by 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rel="tag">political instability</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/refugee-agency/" rel="tag">refugee agency</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/refugee-population/" rel="tag">refugee population</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/un-human-rights-council/" rel="tag">un human rights council</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/unhcr/" rel="tag">UNHCR</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>MADRID, 13 January 2011 (IRIN) – Asma Al-Haidari, an Amman-based Iraqi human rights analyst and advocate, says the phenomenon of enforced disappearances in Iraq touches the whole population, irrespective of age, gender, ethnicity or religious belief. </p> <p>The number of missing persons in Iraq ranges from 250,000 to over one million, according to the International Commission on Missing Persons (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://www.ic-mp.org/" class="external" target="_blank">ICMP</a>). </p> <p>The length of time over which enforced disappearances have occurred in Iraq, starting with the Iraq-Iran war (1980-88), render this issue particularly complex, according to International Committee of the Red Cross spokesperson for Iraq Layal Houraniyeh. The issue of enforced disappearances in Iraq represents, according to IMCP, “a major long-term challenge”. </p> <p>Article 2 of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://www2.ohchr.org/english/law/disappearance-convention.htm" class="external" target="_blank">International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance</a> defines enforced disappearance as “the arrest, detention, abduction or any other form of deprivation of liberty by agents of the State or by persons or groups of persons acting with the authorization, support or acquiescence of the State, followed by a refusal to acknowledge the deprivation of liberty or by concealment of the fate or whereabouts of the disappeared person, which place such a person outside the protection of the law.” </p> <p>The Convention entered into force on 23 December 2010, 30 days after Iraq became the 20th state to ratify it on 23 November. It provides that “no one shall be subjected to enforced disappearance” and that “no exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification for enforced disappearance.” According to the UN Human Rights Council, “secret detention amounts to an enforced disappearance.” </p> <h3>“No safe place” </h3> <p>Focusing on enforced disappearance in Iraq since 2003, Dirk Adriansens, an expert on Iraq and member of international anti-war group the Brussels Tribunal, gave a presentation at a 9-12 December conference in London organized by the International Committee Against Disappearance (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://www.icad-int.org/" class="external" target="_blank">ICAD</a>). Citing 2009 surveys by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), he said 20 percent of internally displaced and 5 percent of returnee families reported cases of missing children. </p> <p>Further, UNHCR <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://www.uniraq.org/documents/UNHCR%20Iraq%20Protection%20Monitoring%20%20Jan-Oct%202009.pdf" class="external" target="_blank">published findings</a> in 2009 showing that “many communities reported missing family members – 30 percent of IDPs, 30 percent of IDP returnees, 27 percent of refugee returnees – indicating that they were missing because of kidnappings, abductions and detentions and that they do not know what happened to their missing family members,” he said. </p> <p>Adriansens added in his presentation: “A rough estimate would therefore bring the number of missing persons among the refugee population and the internally displaced after ‘Shock and Awe’ [2003 US-led military operation to invade Iraq] to 260,000, most of them enforced disappearances.” </p> <p>Adriansens went on to say that by extrapolating UNHCR figures to cover the Iraqi population which had not suffered displacement, the total number of missing persons since 2003 “could be more than half a million”. </p> <p>Jordan-based analyst Al-Haidari believes this number is higher, placing it in the range of 800,000 to one million. “There is no safe place in Iraq. People can be disappeared and sent to secret, illegal detention centres anywhere in the country, without the knowledge of the family or the person’s lawyer,” Al-Haidari said. “Many are assassinated and buried in secret. Many others are charged with trumped-up terrorism charges.” </p> <h3>Amnesty International report </h3> <p>A recent <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120514045106/http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE14/006/2010/en/c7df062b-5d4c-4820-9f14-a4977f863666/mde140062010en.pdf" class="external" target="_blank">Amnesty International report</a> said “an estimated 30,000 untried detainees are currently being held by the Iraqi authorities, although the exact number is not known as the authorities do not disclose such information.” In addition, there are detainees held at secret facilities, at which torture is common, it said. </p> <p>A further 23,000 previously held without charge or trial by US forces are currently being transferred to the Iraqi authorities or released, though Amnesty International believes “[a state cannot] claim to be treating detainees humanely while knowingly handing them over to torturers, any more than it can knowingly `release’ detainees in a minefield and 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