Quota Threshold, Partial Power: Iraqi Women

The Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights (IOHR), as part of its Young Researchers Fellowship Program in partnership with Rutgers University, has published a field study by researcher Duha Mustafa Al-Ameri on why women in Iraq stall at the quota threshold. The study draws on fifteen in-depth interviews conducted in Baghdad in June and July 2024 with women in parties and movements and with independent candidates. It reads them against Inter-Parliamentary Union data, United Nations documents, CEDAW Committee observations, and the legal texts.

Iraq’s Drying Marshes and Women

This is a study prepared by the Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights with the Gulf Centre for Human Rights, authored by Manar Al-Zubaidi. Based on 22 field interviews in Basra, Dhi Qar and Maysan, it shows how drying marshes destroyed women’s livelihoods, harmed their health and deepened displacement and child marriage, and proposes ten recommendations.

The Absence of "HRD" in Iraq’s 2025 Parliament

The brief situates this absence within a broader context marked by declining voter turnout, the withdrawal of protest movements from the electoral process, and the consolidation of influence by traditional forces and actors with a security-oriented discourse within parliament. This development coincides with the end of the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), and the resulting decline in direct international oversight. IOHR argues that this convergence creates a dual accountability gap—both domestic and international—heightening the risk that violations will be normalized and treated as internal matters shielded from scrutiny.

UNAMI’s Departure: Oversight or Accountability?

The Position Paper issued by the Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights (IOHR) examines the implications of the end of the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), and the significance of this development as a major shift in Iraq’s political and human rights landscape after more than two decades of sustained UN presence.

Freedom of assembly and expression in Iraq.. A Study of 20 Years of Change

This study was done during a difficult time for Iraq in view of the current political impasse and the political forces’ inability to form a government

Torture in Iraqi Prisons: The Systematic Methods Used by Security Personnel

Horrific harassment testimonies at universities, hospitals and TV. channels