The war between Iran and Iraq was in its eighth year when, on March 16 and 17, 1988, Iraq dropped poison gas on the Kurdish city of Halabja, then held by Iranian troops and Iraqi Kurdish Human Rights Watch urges all parties to the conflict in Iraq to abide scrupulously by its obligations under IHL. We note as well that the failure of one side to abide by the law does not relieve On the 20-year anniversary of the invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq, Amnesty International today renewed its calls for justice and full reparation for gross human rights violations and serious violations of international humanitarian law perpetrated by the United States-led Coalition. Warring Parties Should Minimize Harm to Civilians. (Beirut) – The expected battle involving Iraqi and US-led coalition forces against the Islamic State (ISIS) in west Mosul’s Old City poses a Region / Country. April 8 is a day that lives in infamy for media in Iraq. 20 years ago, two American missiles hit the Al Jazeera offices in Baghdad, killing a reporter and wounding a cameraman Armed Groups Should Immediately Demobilize Children. (Beirut) – Armed groups in Iraq affiliated to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party have recruited boys and girls, Human Rights Watch said today. In This report documents 14 cases from late 2017 to mid-2019 in which CIA-backed Afghan strike forces committed serious abuses, some amounting to war crimes. The US should work with the Afghan “Every day we receive accounts of a terrible litany of human rights violations being committed in Iraq against ordinary Iraqi children, women and men, who have been deprived of their security, their livelihoods, their homes, education, healthcare and other basic services,” she said. (Beirut) – A court in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq sentenced three journalists and two activists to six years in prison on February 16, 2021, in deeply flawed proceedings, Human Rights Watch On 30 June The special representative of the UN Secretary-General in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello, called on the Iraqi people to take the lead in deciding how to deal with the massive human rights OctFpx.