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07 May 2013

Iraq
Iraq 10 years on: Less dependent on food rations

Report

— IRIN

BAGHDAD/DUBAI, 7 May 2013 (IRIN) - Food security in Iraq has improved in the last decade, as the American-led invasion brought an end to sanctions and a resumption of open relations between Iraq and the rest of the world.

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06 May 2013

Iraq
Women yet to regain their place

Report

— IRIN

In the 1980s, the UN says, Iraqi women enjoyed more basic rights than other women in the region. But years of dictatorship, sanctions and conflict led to the deterioration in women’s status.

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02 May 2013

Iraq
Iraq 10 years on: War leaves lasting impact on healthcare

Report

— IRIN

DUBAI, 2 May 2013 (IRIN) - Of all the areas of Iraq's development that were affected by the US-led invasion 10 years ago, healthcare has probably taken the biggest hit.

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01 May 2013

Iraq
From aid restrictions to access challenges

Report

— IRIN

DUBAI, 1 May 2013 (IRIN) - Aid work in Iraq has always had a bumpy ride, from the restrictions imposed under former president Saddam Hussein to the corruption associated with the Oil-for-Food Programme. But it has arguably never been as challenging as in the last decade.

Aid work was tightly controlled under Hussein's rule, according to Yaseen Ahmed Abbas, president of the Iraq Red Crescent Society. "The Society was managed by the government - completely," he told IRIN. "We have much more freedom now. You can't compare."

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30 Apr 2013

Iraq
More freedom but less security?

Report

— IRIN

A decade after US-led forces toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, IRIN examines the impact of the occupation on basic living standards.

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26 Apr 2013

Iraq
Schools try to play catch-up

Report

— IRIN

DUBAI, 26 April 2013 (IRIN) - Thanks to growing oil revenues in the 1970s, Iraq had, by the early 1980s, developed a generous public services system. It was seen to have the best education system in the region, with near-universal primary school enrolment and an effective literacy programme.

Had Iraq progressed at the same rate as other Middle Eastern countries, primary school enrolment for both boys and girls would be 100 percent today, according to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

Instead, Iraq’s education system is largely playing catch-up.

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24 Apr 2013

Iraq
Economy grows, but how many benefit?

Report

— IRIN

BAGHDAD/DUBAI, 24 April 2013 (IRIN) - Iraq's development has historically been linked to its ability to sell and produce oil, and to world oil prices. Yet oil-related measures of economic growth may obscure some of the economic conditions facing ordinary Iraqis.

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23 Apr 2013

Iraq + 1 other
Iraq 10 years on: the forgotten displacement crisis

Report

— IRIN

DUBAI, 23 April 2013 (IRIN) - Iraq has experienced waves of displacement in recent decades, but none compare in size or scale to the flight of Iraqis after the bombing of a Holy Shi'ite shrine in 2006, an event that marked the start of two years of deadly sectarian violence.

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22 Apr 2013

Iraq
Iraq 10 years on: The humanitarian legacy

Report

— IRIN

IRIN takes a look development and humanitarian indicators for Iraq, which show a decade of fits and starts, with progress in one area met by stagnation in another.

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22 Apr 2013

Iraq
Iraq 10 years on: Are the taps flowing?

Report

— IRIN

BAGHDAD/DUBAI, 22 April 2013 (IRIN) - For much of the past decade, Iraqis have cursed about two things: 'maya' and 'kahraba' - water and electricity.

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02 Apr 2013

Iraq
In Iraq's disputed territories, a health services vacuum

Report

— IRIN

KANDAL, 2 April 2013 (IRIN) - At 9am in the northern Iraqi village of Kandal, female residents are gathering in the leafy courtyard of the local mosque. But they have not come to pray; they are here to see the doctor - a rare opportunity in this part of the country.

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13 Feb 2013

Iraq
Briefing: A guide to diffusing sectarian tensions in Iraq

Report

— IRIN

BAGHDAD, 13 February 2013 (IRIN) - Protests have rocked Sunni-dominated provinces of Iraq for almost two months, raising sectarian tensions in the country’s fragile post-war environment.

Subsequent actions and reactions have raised fears among Iraqis and in the UN of a resurgence of the kind of violence that killed tens of thousands of people during the civil strife of 2006-08.

Bombings on 8 and 11 February - the most recent in continued attacks since the withdrawal of US forces in late 2011 - have killed dozens of people and heightened those fears.

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18 Dec 2012

Iraq
No future for al-Qaeda's children

Report

— IRIN

BUQABA, 18 December 2012 (IRIN) - Near a swamp of sewage in a slum in eastern Iraq, six-year-old Amir plays soccer with friends, unaware of a fact that may continue to affect him for the rest of his life:

His father - killed four months before he was born - was a senior leader within al-Qaeda.

Like dozens of other children of insurgents in Diyala Province, Amir's birth was not registered. He has no documentation, no citizenship, no access to government services and, his mother fears, no future.

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24 Oct 2012

Iraq + 3 others
Analysis: Not-so-open borders for Syrian refugees?

Report

— IRIN

DUBAI, 24 October 2012 (IRIN) - Aid agencies, human rights organizations and local government officials are increasingly concerned about thousands of people who have fled violence in Syria only to end up stuck at border crossings waiting to enter countries to seek asylum.

According to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), local authorities in Turkey report that more than 10,000 Syrians are located at various points on the Syrian side of the border, many of them waiting to enter Turkey.

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04 Sep 2012

Iraq + 1 other
Still no clear policy to tackle displacement

Report

— IRIN

AL-RUSTUMIYA, 4 September 2012 (IRIN) - A dusty settlement on the outskirts of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, Al-Rustumiya is more a collection of rags, rubble and garbage than a neighbourhood - and yet its residents wish for no more than to be able to stay here.

Squatting illegally on government land, they are under constant threat of eviction, but say they cannot return to their places of origin.

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10 Aug 2012

Iraq + 1 other
Iraqi Kurdistan welcomes Syrian brethren, for now

Report

— IRIN

DOMIZ CAMP, 10 August 2012 (IRIN) - Escaping the summer heat of this Syrian refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan, Nureddin Raouf al-Abdullah enters his two-bedroom home, cell phone in hand.

Artwork hangs on the wall, and a TV sits in the corner.

"Don't worry," he tells visitors from the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) when they inquire about concerns in the camp. "We can control the disputes in our own community. We don't need to report small issues."

Abdullah - recently elected to a refugee committee in the camp - exudes a confidence that reflects his comfort in this camp.

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02 Aug 2012

Iraq + 1 other
Iraq-Syria: As Kurds enter the fray, risk of conflict grows

Report

— IRIN

ERBIL/DOMIZ/BERLIN, 2 August 2012 (IRIN) - The flag of Kurdistan is draped over the walls of public buildings in Afrin in northern Syria: After the security forces left the small town near the Turkish border two weeks ago, the Syrian banners have all but disappeared.

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01 Aug 2012

Iraq + 1 other
Briefing: Why is Iraq still so dangerous?

Report

— IRIN

Photo: Heba Aly/IRIN Iraqi Security Forces are often the target of attacks

BAGHDAD, 1 August 2012 (IRIN) - Assessments of security trends in Iraq vary wildly depending on who you speak to, how you count the statistics, and which period of time you study. But one thing is clear: bomb blasts, targeted killings or improvised explosive devices are still a daily occurrence in Iraq.

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27 Jul 2012

Iraq + 1 other
Returnees from Syria - a "humanitarian crisis" in the making

Report

— IRIN

BAGHDAD, 27 July 2012 (IRIN) - Thousands of Iraqi refugees returning from Syria will face huge challenges reintegrating into a country with high rates of unemployment, dismal basic services and ongoing sectarian strife.

"I think we will face a humanitarian crisis regarding this issue," said Yaseen Ahmed Abbas, the president of the Iraq Red Crescent (IRC). "You should expect pressure on everything in Iraq by having such a large number of people in a short time. It's not easy."

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22 May 2012

Iraq
Mine-free target of 2018 target will be missed

Report

— IRIN

BAGHDAD, 22 May 2012 (IRIN) - Iraq is drawing detailed maps of areas contaminated by landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXO), but is unlikely to clear these areas by a 2018 deadline, says a government official.

"Lack of detailed maps for landmines was one of the major problems and it delayed our mine-clearance efforts because the previous regime planted them randomly," Deputy Environment Minister Kamal Hussein Latif told IRIN.

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