Dublin: Front Line launches "Iraq - The Untold Story" a new collection of testimonies by Iraqi human rights defenders

Today in Dublin Front Line launched "Iraq - The Untold Story" a collection of personal testimonies by 13 Iraqi human rights defenders. The report was launched by Professor William Schabas, Head of the Irish Centre for Human Rights in the National University of Ireland Galway, and Ms. Shahlaa Hishmat an Iraqi journalist and human rights defender who is living in exile in Ireland.

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Posted 10 September 2008 Professor emphasised the failure of the international community to put human rights and in particular the protection of human rights defenders at the heart of their political strategy. "Despite the high level of coverage of the situation in Iraq the human rights dimension is lost" he said. Ms. Hishmat spoke of the assassination of her husband, journalist Ra'id Quais Fadhel, and the fact that it is only when you read these individual testimonies that you realise the scale of the challenges facing the people of Iraq. "Despite the evidence of progress the people of Iraq still face many dangers" she said.

See the Attached Text of the press release and the PDF of the report

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Iraq Report PDF Version for media.pdf	4.31 MB
Iraq report final press release.doc	91 KB