Tag: Marsh Arabs
The Mashufna Cultural Center Opens in Nasiriya: a New Resource for Civil Society
The inscription in 2016 of the Marshlands into the UNESCO World Heritage List was an important milestone for Iraq, which would not have been possible without strong efforts…
World Wetlands Day: what measures will be taken to safeguard the Iraqi Marshes?
On the occasion of World Wetlands Day, February 2, the Ministry of Water Resources in Iraq held an official event in Baghdad, celebrating the unique value of wetlands,…
Extractivism, environmental migration and water conflict: civil society reflects at the COP22
By Toon Bijnens, Save the Tigris and Iraqi Marshes Campaign 2016 will be the hottest year recorded in human history, and the world is looking for urgent action…
Iraq’s Marsh Arabs more optimistic after World Heritage status
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 23 November 2016 The Marshlands of Mesopotamia in southern Iraq are a rare aquatic landscape in the desert, and a biodiversity hotspot for…
Call for collaboration on the implementation of UNESCO recommendations for the Iraqi Marshes!
Statement by the Save the Tigris and Iraqi Marshes Campaign September 22, 2016 Following the 3rd session of the Iraqi Social Forum in Baghdad The Save the Tigris…
Mega water projects and the environmental crisis in the Iraqi Marshes: a publication by A Sud
Beyond the rhetoric of “waves” as used by the media in their narrative of migration flows to Europe lies a different and more complex reality, a reality beyond…
Ecological Collapse Circumscribes Traditional Women’s Work in Iraq’s Mesopotamian Marshes
Eurekalert “As the land at the heart of the cradle of civilization dries out, an ancient culture is being lost with the unique ecosystem that sustains it.” For…
The Tigris Declaration To Save Hasankeyf and Mesopotamian Marshes
The international campaign against the Ilisu dam project on the Tigris river has reached a new threshold: nearly 25 000 have signed the petition to the UNESCO World Heritage…
Marsh Arabs protest Ilisu Project in Hasankeyf
Cradle of Civilization at Risk of Desertification: Tigris Declaration sent to UN Hasankeyf, Turkey, May 22, 2012 “We have come from Iraq to speak, because no one came…