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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.  Read More

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Iraq: Attack against women's rights organisation, Asuda

Front Line is deeply concerned following a gun attack against women's rights organisation, Asuda, on 11 May 2008. Founded in 2000, Asuda is a non-governmental organisation based in Sulaymaniyah that provides protection for women victims of domestic violence.  Read More

Iraq: Attack and subsequent death of human rights defender and journalist Shihab Al-Timimi

Front Line is deeply concerned following the attack on and subsequent death of human rights defender and journalist Shihab Al-Timimi, aged seventy-five years old. Shihab Al-Timimi was the head of the Iraqi Journalists' Union as well as a renowned campaigner for the right to freedom of expression in Iraq.  Read More

Front Line mourns the death of Iraqi journalist Sahar Al-Haidari

Front Line is greatly saddened to learn about the murder of the Iraqi journalist, Sahar Al-Haidari in her home town of Mosul on 7 June 2007. She was the mother of three children and worked as a news reporter for Iraq Voices, a news agency based in Mosul, the National Iraq News Agency - Nina and the Institute for War and Peace Reporting. Sahar Al-Haidari is the third journalist to be killed in Iraq in the last two weeks. Read more on Article 19 website

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