Tag: Workshop
Qamishlo Activists in Syria Learn About Regional Water Security
Following years of neglect under the Assad regime and the struggle against Daesh, North-East Syria continues to be plagued by water scarcity. Overconsumption from the Turkish side of…
Iraqi youth in action to protect the Tigris River
Protecting the Tigris River of Iraq: this will be the main objective for a new group of committed youth activists from Baghdad and Southern Iraq as they developed…
Save the Tigris and Iraqi Marshes Campaign Youth Camp in the Marshes of Al-Chibayish
Baghdad, 2 December 2015 For three days, Iraqi youth activists of the Save the Tigris River and the Iraqi Marshes Campaign camped in the marshes of Al-Chibayish in Al-Nasiriyah province,…
Save the Tigris Campaign workshop in Erbil upcoming!
From June 26-27, the Save the Tigris Campaign will conduct a training for Iraqi youth environmental activists in Erbil. A group of around 25 activists from Baghdad and…
The Erbil strategy meeting and the way forward for the Save the Tigris campaign
By Toon Bijnens, Save the Tigris and Iraqi Marshes Campaign/ICSSI Report of the Save the Tigris Campaign Strategy Meeting (Extract). More than 20 participants, international and from all…
Erbil hosts international and Iraqi activists for the Strategy Meeting of the Save the Tigris Campaign
Prior to the Save the Tigris Campaign Strategy Meeting, 9-11 May, Erbil, Iraq The current political and security crisis in Iraq has aggravated the water crisis in Iraq.…
Focus on Iraq at the World Social Forum 2015
By Martina Pignatti Morano (Un ponte per… and ICSSI) , April 2015. The World Social Forum has always been an important occasion for international and Iraqi activists to…
How much longer can the water crisis be neglected?
Updates on the Save Tigris and Iraqi Marshes Campaign, March 2015 The water crisis in the Middle East region is aggravating, turning from a shortage of water resources…
Will Iraq Refer The Issue Of Ilisu Dam To The UN Security Council?
by Johanna L. Rivera Save The Tigris And The Iraqi Mashes Campaign and ICSSI On March 22nd in Baghdad, the Iraqi Social Forum – a gathering of several…
The Basra water crisis and increasing salinity of the Shatt al-Arab
By Toon Bijnens Basra, Iraq The Save the Tigris Campaign participated on 15 and 16 February in an international workshop in Basra, entitled “Basra Water Crisis, Shatt al-Arab…
Impacts of Ilisu Dam in Iraq: A lecture at the Marine Science Center Basra University
Iraq faces enormous challenges in terms of water resources. Once the cradle of civilizations, an agricultural haven, now Iraq’s land has dried significantly mostly due to man-made causes.…
Workshop on the Save the Tigris and Iraqi Marshes Campaign, ICSSI Conference 201
You are invited to participate in a workshop on the Save the Tigris Campaign that will be held in Basra. This session will be part of the IV…