Heritage and culture can be rooted in physical spaces, so when these come under threat or are permanently altered by conflict or climate change, this…
Duhok, 2019 – School children on their way home at Mam-Rashan IDP Camp – photo: Ammar Azeez After escaping years of anguish in ISIS captivity,…
Whether fuelled by political and religious leaders, or the media, hate speech in Iraq taps into deeper problems of structural inequality in society and has…
Asad Gokal Since September, when UAE locked a deal for normalizing relations with Israel, alarm bells began to ring louder for the Pakistani Shia diaspora…
Rebuilding heritage and the cohesion of communities that live and breathe it is not merely a matter of rebuilding tangible (often historical) sites, but also…
Cultural heritage is fundamental to human dignity and identity. As part of the IDS-led CREID programme the rights of religious communities to practice and preserve…
Samira Muhammad Hussein, aka Samira Karimat, a known women activist in Kirkuk – photo: Samira’s Facebook account A contrarian woman, Samira has spent her life…
As part of the IDS-led Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID), we are working with religious minority communities in Iraq and Syria to…
Asad Gokal The Shia women were beaten by batons and dragged by the Narowal police which had raided their homes to arrest their men for…
Kirkuk, 2020 – a Kaka’i villager in one of the villages of Daquq – photo: Karwan Salehi Members of the Kaka'i community do not have…
Maha Usman Heavy rains resulted in an added layer of suffering endured by the marginalized minorities of Sindh as well as the general people. “The…
The dagger ‘uncle’ Azeez tucks in his waistband has been in his possession for nearly half a century and has been in his family for…
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