Women Struggle to Find Work
Unemployment among women said to be impoverishing hundreds of thousands of families.
Focus on Kurdish Riots
Photographs by Kamaran Najm/Metrography for IWPR.
Iraq: Oct/Nov ‘09
Scores attend series of IWPR training sessions on media law and journalists’ rights.
DNA Testing to Reveal Mass Grave Secrets
First Iraqi project to identify victims of Saddam’s crimes against the Kurds underway at site near Kirkuk.
Youth Flaunt New-Found Wealth
Economic liberalisation brings widening social gulf.
Anbar: Bangladeshi Workers in Double Trouble
They are kept under lock and key by their employers and face resentment from province's unemployed.
Kirkuk Uneasy Despite Parliamentary Deal
Following political representation agreement, some residents fear unresolved issues will return to trouble them.
Deputies Take Aim at Election Commission
Inquiry attacks commission’s credibility ahead of parliamentary elections.
New Mass Grave Excavations in Iraq
Mass graves near Kirkuk, first discovered after US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, now being examined in joint forensics operation by the Kurdish and Iraqi governments.
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