EDITORIAL Issue 146 – February 5, 2009 NCCI WEEKLY HIGHLIGHT
Security in Iraq: Relatively Speaking If there is to be any degree of honesty in our communication, we must begin to acknowledge that the lexicon of words that describes the human condition is no longer universally applicable. I am in Iraq after four years away. Most Iraqis I talked with on the eve of the first provincial elections being held after 2005 told me “security is better.” I myself was lulled into a false sense of security upon my arrival a week ago. Indeed, security is “better,” compared to my last trip here, when the number of attacks per month against the occupation forces and Iraqi collaborators used to be around 6,000. Today, we barely have one American soldier being killed every other day and only a score injured weekly. Casualties among Iraqi security forces are just ten times that number. But yes, one could say security is better if one is clear that it is better in comparison not to downtown Houston but to Fallujah 2004. Compared to days of multiple car bomb explosions, Baghdad today is better. Is it safer? Is it more secure? Difficult to say in a place when the capital city of the country is essentially in lock‐down and prevailing conditions are indicative of a police state. We have a state in Iraq where the government is exercising rigid and repressive controls over social life (no unpermitted demonstrations, curfews, concrete walls around the capital city), economic (read ‐ the 100 Bremer Orders that were passed under the Coalition Provisional Authority ‐ all of the key laws over economic control still in place), and political life of the citizenry. By definition, a police state exhibits elements of totalitarianism and social control, and in today’s Iraq, we have plenty examples of both. The Oxford American Dictionary defines security as “The state of being free from danger or threat.” I visited the Dora area of Baghdad, which is completely walled off with thanks to US occupation forces. Umm Shihab, a tired‐looking woman selling vegetables in the local market, told me, “Our sons are still in jail and we want them released. We want the government to lift these walls. Why do they keep them?” Walking around Dora, I wondered how anyone could feel secure surrounded by so many soldiers, police and weapons. I did not, and I am certain neither would you. But then we are American and our notion of security is different. Armed with a media permit, we were allowed to drive along the empty streets of Baghdad on the Saturday of the elections. What struck me during the drive, and later at a polling station, was that there was no escaping the feeling that anywhere, anytime, a bomb could be detonated. It was omnipresent, as was the fear of being kidnapped. This latter threat, though vastly diminished as compared to a year back, is still real. As Western journalists, we are worth a pretty packet of ransom. But I am able to travel, gather information and file stories, when earlier I could never be sure that I would be able to make my way alive from the airport into the city, so let me assure you, Iraq today is certainly better than it has been since the first year of the occupation. For the provincial elections on January 31, traffic bans were ordered in Baghdad and other major cities. Security forces deployed on the occasion include hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Police and Army personnel, over 130,000 US military personnel and an estimated 50,000‐75,000 mercenaries. The closely monitored frontiers with Iran and Syria were sealed off completely. A nighttime curfew was implemented at 10 p.m. Friday and remained in place till roughly 6 p.m. Saturday. Stretching from the foothills of the lower Kurdish‐controlled north to the Persian Gulf in the south, double‐ring security cordons surrounded thousands of polling sites located in schools, offices and civic centers. The illogical question that rears its head each time I push it back is, “What does a ’secure’ country need that kind of security for on election day, or for that matter on any other day?” I would like to mention here that through the entire period of my four‐year absence I have maintained regular correspondence with my friends and contacts in Iraq, and therefore have had accurate information all along about the totally abnormal life that the average Iraqi has been living. Yet, witnessing it on arrival has left me reeling. NCCI Weekly Highlight
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I’m surprised at myself for being surprised that the situation is as unbearable as it continues to be. As a succinct summary after a week’s stay, I have this to offer: The situation in Iraq has not changed except to worsen. What the passage of four years of occupation during my absence has brought to the people of Iraq is greater displacement, more economic degradation, extreme desperation, untreatable sickness and a near‐total loss of hope. What does this do to the psyche of a normal human being? And yet, “God willing, these elections will help us, because we need more security,” said Ahmed Hassan after he voted on Saturday, “The Iraqi people are tired. We want to be able to relax.” You may wonder what for him and his fellow Iraqis would constitute security. Perhaps like us in America; to go through a day without negotiating streets filled with armed men, military hardware, and U.S. military helicopters and jets roaring overhead. Or is that too much for them to expect as so many millions of my fellow Americans stand mute witnesses to: The long, long war (that) goes on ten thousand miles from home. …………….. So, men are scattered and smeared And the generals have accomplished nothing. over the desert grass, ‐Nefarious War Li Po (Circa 750) Dahr Jamail Dahr Jamial’s Middle East Dispatches ---------------------------------------
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Contents Page Iraq Context International – pg. 5 National – pg. 6 Elections – pg. 7 Violence and Security – pg. 8 Iraq Humanitarian Environment and Space IDPs and Refugees – pg. 9 Human Rights – pg. 9 Food Security and Livelihoods – pg. 9 Water and Healthcare – pg. 10 Humanitarian Space – pg.10 Coordination – pg. 10 Reference Documents – pg. 11 Schedule Updates – pg. 13 Upcoming Important Dates – pg. 13 Updates and Announcements – pg. 13 NCCI Weekly Highlight
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JInternationalJ Pointing to a New Era, U.S. Pulls Back as Iraqis Vote Source: NYT Document: Article Date: January 31, 2009 Access: Open Iraqis across the country voted Saturday in provincial elections that will help shape their future, but regardless of the outcome it is clear that the Americans are already drifting offstage — and that most Iraqis are ready to see them go. Royal Navy helps to train Iraq’s new sailors Source : The Times Document: Article Date: January 31, 2009 Access: Open Since 2003 a largely unsung and unnoticed Royal Navy team has led the rebuilding of the Iraqi Navy, all of whose ships and small craft were destroyed or disabled during the military, naval and air actions that accompanied the US‐led occupation of the country in 2003. ‘New measures will boost Jordan‐Iraq trade’ Source : JT Document: Article Date: February 3, 2009 Access: Open UK troops have met conditions for Iraq withdrawal Source: Reuters Document: Article Date: February 2, 2009 Access: Open British troops in Iraq have largely met the conditions required for their withdrawal and are on track to begin leaving the country by May 31, a top British commander said on Monday. Major General Andy Salmon, commander of coalition forces in south‐eastern Iraq, said the holding of peaceful provincial elections on Saturday met the latest of Prime Minister Gordon Brown's goals for removing Britain's 4,000 troops from Iraq by the end of July. Iraqi death researcher censured New measures announced by the government to facilitate the entry and residency of Iraqis in the Kingdom will more than double the volume of trade exchange between the two countries, the Iraqi envoy in Amman said on Saturday. "In 2008, Iraq was the Jordan’s biggest trading partner, as Jordanian private sector's exports to Iraq amounted to over JD1 billion,” Iraqi Ambassador Saad Hayyani told The Jordan Times on Saturday. UN envoy meets fact‐finding committee in Kirkuk Source: VOI Document: Article Date: February 2, 2009 Access: Open A UN representative for Iraq on Monday met with a fact‐finding committee to discuss trespasses on public property in Kirkuk in the aftermath the U.S.‐
led invasion.“Today, the seven‐member fact‐
finding committee of the Iraqi Parliament met in the governorate’s building with the deputy special representative for Iraq, Andrew Gilmour, to reach solutions to the trespasses on state property in Kirkuk after 2003,” the media director in the province, Daleer Samad, told Aswat al‐Iraq news agency. Source: BBC Document: Article Date: February 4, 2009 Access: Open An academic whose estimates of civilian deaths during the Iraq war sparked controversy has been criticised for not fully co‐operating with an inquiry. Gilbert Burnham said in the Lancet medical journal in 2006 that 650,000 civilians had died since 2003 ‐ a figure far higher than other estimates. Iraq Crisis Report (IraqHAR) Source: Centre of Excellence on Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance Document: Weekly report Date: February 4, 2009 Access: Open NCCI Weekly Highlight
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Saturday’s provincial elections in Iraq were praised by the US and the UN for running smoothly without any major violence, after Iraqi security forces heightened security in anticipation for attacks on voting stations. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al‐
Maliki had hoped for a 70‐80 percent turnout, however, voter participation was not as high as the IHEC expected, with only 51 percent (7.5 million) of the projected 15 million eligible voters making their way to voting stations, Xinhua news agency said. Juan Cole’s informed comment’s excerpt Source: Informed Comment – Juan Cole’s Web Blog. Document: Selection of daily comments Date: February 1‐5, 2009 Access: Open Juan Cole is a Professor of Modern Middle East and South Asian History at the University of Michigan. As such he brings daily much needed expertise and historical perspective to issues surrounding Iraq, Afghanistan and the Middle East. Good reading to have a weekly review of the Iraq daily situation. JNationalJ Iraqi Elections Face Crucial Test in Violent Mosul Source: NYT Document: Article Date: January 29, 2009 Access: Open elect a speaker,” read the statement that was received by Aswat al‐Iraq news agency. Kurds to hold regional elections on May 19 The thud of the car bomb was familiar, if in this case close, rattling the windows and puffing out the drapes. “This is our fate,” Mohammed Shakir, 67, the top candidate running for the local council with the Iraqi Islamic Party, said post‐boom a few days before the provincial elections here. “There is no politics when there is chaos and car bombing.” Source: GT Document: Article Date: February 4, 2009 Access: Open Report shows wasted Iraq spending Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region is to hold elections to its regional parliament in May, the legislature's speaker Adnan Mufti said on Tuesday, setting no date for provincial elections held in most of the rest of the country last weekend. Source: BBC Document: Article Date: February 2, 2009 Access: Open Provincial elections split coalitions US reconstruction efforts in Iraq were "grossly overburdened" by wasteful spending, according to a report by the special inspector general for Iraq. Stuart Bowen blames a lack of security and "dramatic" course changes for the waste, but says fraud was a "relatively small" problem. Parl. resumes sessions to elect speaker Source: VOI Document: Article Date: February 3, 2009 Access: Open The Iraqi Parliament on Wednesday will resume its sessions to elect its speaker, according to a parliamentary statement. “The sessions will be resumed tomorrow following a recess that began on January 19 th, when the parliament failed to ‫تﻓﻜﻚ اﻟﺘﺤﺎﻟﻔﺎت ﻓﻲ اﻧﺘﺨﺎﺑﺎت ﻣﺠﺎﻟﺲ‬
‫اﻟﻤﺤﺎﻓﻈﺎت‬
Source: Niqash Document: Article Date: January 31, 2009 Access: Open 31 ‫آﺸﻔﺖ اﻧﺘﺨﺎﺑﺎت ﻣﺠﺎﻟﺲ اﻟﻤﺤﺎﻓﻈﺎت اﻟﺘﻲ ﺗﺠﺮى ﻓﻲ‬
‫ﻣﻦ اﻟﺸﻬﺮ اﻟﺠﺎري ﻋﻦ ﺧﻼﻓﺎت ﻋﻤﻴﻘﺔ ﺑﻴﻦ اﻟﻜﺘﻞ‬
‫ ﻓﺒﻌﺪ أن ﺗﻤﻜﻨﺖ ﻣﻦ اﻟﻤﺤﺎﻓﻈﺔ ﻋﻠﻰ‬،‫اﻟﺴﻴﺎﺳﻴﺔ اﻟﻤﺘﺤﺎﻟﻔﺔ‬
‫ ﻗﺮرت أهﻢ‬،‫وﺣﺪﺗﻬﺎ ﺧﻼل اﻟﺴﻨﻮات اﻟﺜﻼث اﻟﻤﺎﺿﻴﺔ‬
‫اﻻﺣﺰاب اﻟﻤﺸﺎرآﺔ ﻓﻲ ﺗﻠﻚ اﻟﺘﺤﺎﻟﻔﺎت ﺧﻮض اﻻﻧﺘﺨﺎﺑﺎت‬
‫ﺑﻘﻮاﺋﻢ ﻣﻨﻔﺮدة‬.
The provincial elections have witnessed the emergence of sharp divisions between the country’s leading political coalitions, splitting the key Shiite and Sunni blocs for the first time. After maintaining unity for the past three years, the biggest parties in these coalitions are now competing for elections on separate lists. NCCI Weekly Highlight
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JElectionsJ ISCI says Maliki wins Basra, Baghdad in Iraq polls Source: Reuters Document: Article Date: February 4, 2009 Access: Open A rival party leader conceded on Wednesday that allies of Prime Minister Nuri al‐Maliki had probably won Iraq's two most important cities in local polls, but said coalitions would still end up ruling in most places. Surge in voting by Iraqi Sunnis Source: BBC Document: Article Date: February 1, 2009 Access: Open Turnout in Saturday's provincial elections in Iraq was 51%, according to figures from the electoral commission. This was lower than some had predicted, but Iraqi officials told news agencies turnout had jumped in some mainly Sunni areas which previously boycotted polls. Peace and quiet mark Iraq polls Source: BBC Document: Article Date: February 1, 2009 Access: Open There was none of the same election fever of 2005, when voters emerged proudly from polling stations with purple‐ink stained thumbs. And turnout appears to have been on the low side, except in Sunni areas where many were voting for the first time. International observers hail Iraq elections Source: Al Sumaria Document: Article Date: February 01, 2009 Access: Open Under the supervision of UN observers and Independent groups the electoral process took place since the opening of the ballots at 7 am without registering any important infringements. Provincial elections smoothly conducted and well organized Source: UNAMI Document: Article Date: January 31, 2009 Access: Open The Chairman of the Independent High Electoral Commission tonight congratulated all Iraqis as he announced the closure of more than 6,471 polling centers and 41,495 polling stations after 11 hours of voting by millions of Iraqis. “This is a crucial election for our country. I am proud of the enthusiasm Iraqis showed today when they came out to vote for better futures for all of us.” No Purple Finger for You Source: CPT Document: Article Date: February 2, 2009 Access: Open We have a choice, to vote or set the polling place on fire. I had a family member killed by Saddam. That is why it is very important that I can vote now,” said a man in the crowd of would‐be voters who had come to the local office of the Independent High Electoral Commission of Iraq (IHEC) in Khanaqin to demand the right to vote denied them on election day. Low turnout in Iraq's election reflects a disillusioned nation Source: McClatchy Document: Article Date: February 1, 2009 Access: Open Voter turnout in Iraq's provincial elections Saturday was the lowest in the nation's short history as a new democracy despite a relative calm across the nation. Only about 7.5 million of more than 14 million registered voters went to the polls. Report on the observation process of the provincial election in Duhok Governorate NCCI Weekly Highlight
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Source: KCRO Document: Report Date: February 3, 2009 Access: Open Report on observations from the voting in Dohuk governorate, of displaced persons. Iraq elections to alter political map Source: Al Sumaria Document: Article Date: February 3, 2009 Access: Open allegations of electoral fraud in Anbar province that, if corroborated, could alter the outcome of Saturday's election, providing the clearest indication yet that voting irregularities occurred during provincial balloting. What will we learn from Iraq's provincial elections? Source: Guardian Document: Article Date: February 2, 2009 Results of Iraq provincial elections will definitely lead to a major change in Iraq’s political map as new political powers will emerge and reflect on parliamentarian elections due at the end of this year. On February 4, ballots counting will start while IHEC Chairman Faraj Al Haydari affirms that the Commission will start receiving complaints about voting infringements. Iraq's provincial elections have produced a complex mosaic of early clues to the public mood, but it is too soon for the exact results of Saturday's poll to be known. Even when they come, it will be hard to be sure why voters chose this party rather than that one in the absence of exit polling.
Iraq Probes Possible Voter Fraud Source: IHEC (Arabic and English) Document: Article Date: February 5, 2009 Source: WP Document: Article Date: February 4, 2009 Access: Open IHEC Factsheet: Tally Centre at the IHEC National Office in Baghdad IHEC factsheet on the tally centre at the IHEC national office in Baghdad. The head of Iraq's electoral commission said Tuesday that it is investigating "serious" JViolence and Security IssuesJ Diyala facing security dilemma Source: Gulf Times Document: Article Date: January 29, 2009 Access: Open It is election season in Baquba, the capital of Iraq’s volatile and ethnically mixed Diyala province, and formerly one of the main battlefields in the fight against Al Qaeda in Iraq. The streets are festooned with posters and stickers, often in layers, as political partisans rip competitors’ posters down and replace them with their own. Candidates make speeches, bestow gifts, and listen to the voters at gatherings around the city. Iraq tribes threaten to take up arms over poll Source: Reuters Document: Article Date: February 2, 2009 Access: Open Tribal sheikhs who helped drive al Qaeda militants out of Western Iraq threatened on Monday to take up arms against the provincial government because of what they said was fraud in Saturday's provincial polls. The election was the most peaceful in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein, but there has been tension in the west of the country between Sunni Arab groups, many of whom boycotted the last provincial ballot in 2005. Iraqi military lifts curfew in Anbar Source: Gulf News Document: Article Date: February 3, 2009 Access: Open The Iraqi military on Tuesday lifted a curfew in Anbar a day after tribal shaikhs sent gunmen into the streets to protest what they claimed was vote rigging in last weekend’s elections. Iraqi commander Major General Murdhi Mishhin said a vehicle ban has been lifted and there have been no reports of violence. ‫( ﻣﻊ ﻣﻄﻠﻊ اﻟﻌﺎم‬1242) ‫أﻧﺨﻔﺎض اﻋﻤﺎل اﻟﻌﻨﻒ اﻟﻰ‬
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Source: MRFC Document: Article Date: February 3, 2009 Access: Open Iraq forces arrest suspected recruiter of female suicide bombers ‫اﺻـﺪر ﻣﺮﺻﺪ اﻟﺤﻘـﻮق واﻟﺤـﺮﻳﺎت اﻟﺪﺳـﺘﻮرﻳﻪ‬
(MRFC) 2008 / ‫ﻋﻠﻰ ﻣﺪى اﻟﻌﺎم اﻟﻤﺎﺿﻲ‬
‫ ﻧﺼﻒ ﺳﻨﻮﻳﻪ – ﺳﻨﻮﻳﻪ (ﺗﻘــﺎرﻳﺮًا‬- ‫ﺗﺼﻒ )ﺷـــﻬﺮﻳﻪ‬
‫اﻟﻤﺪﻧﻴﻴﻦ اﻟﻮﺿﻊ اﻻﻧﺴﺎﻧﻲ واﻻﻧﺘﻬﺎآﺎت اﻟﺘﻲ ﻃﺎﻟﺖ‬
‫ﻟﻬﺎ ﺣﻴﺚ ﺧﻠﻔﺖ اﻻﺣﺼﺎﺋﻴﺎت اﻟﺘﻲ ﺗﻮﺻﻞ اﺳﺘﻨﺎدًا اﻟﻰ‬
‫ (اﻋﻤﺎل اﻟﻌﻨﻒ ﻣﺎﺑﻴﻦ‬2000- 5000 ) ‫ﺿﺤﻴﻪ ﺧﻼل‬
‫ اﻟﺸﻬﺮ اﻟﻮاﺣﺪ‬.
Source: Guardian Document: Article Date: February 3, 2009 Access: Open A woman suspected of recruiting more than 80 female suicide bombers has been arrested, the Iraqi military claimed today, potentially dealing a blow to one of the deadliest forms of insurgent attack in Iraq. _______________________________-----__
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JIDPs and RefugeesJ Document: Article Date: February 2, 2009 Access: Open IOM Displacement Assessment and Statistics Source: IOM Document: Report Date: February 2, 2009 Access: Open International Organisation for Migration’s displacement and return statistics for February 2009. Iraqi refugees follow provincial elections back home Source: UNHCR Iraqi refugees in nearby countries such as Egypt, Jordan and Syria were on Monday awaiting the outcome of provincial elections in their homeland over the weekend with mixed feelings. About 50 percent of the electorate turned out in 14 of the country's 18 provinces for Saturday's largely peaceful vote, the first since 2005. More than 14,000 candidates were competing for 440 seats – the official results are expected in a few days' time. JHuman RightsJ Iraq elections delay transfer of prisoners Source: Al Sumaria Document: Article Date: February 2, 2009 Access: Open US marine official Major Neal Fisher reported that Iraq provincial elections have delayed the transfer to Iraqi authorities of prisoners held by the US‐led coalition. “This adjustment will still allow for the release of nearly 300 detainees during the first week of February”, he said. The coalition holds about 15,800 prisoners at two locations, Camp Victory near Baghdad airport and Camp Bucca in southern Iraq. It is to be noted that the transfer is part of the US‐Iraqi military pact signed in November. JFood Security and LivelihoodsJ NCCI Weekly Highlight
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Baghdad housing press brief Source: UNHABITAT Document: Article Date: January 30, 2009 Access: Open The Iraqi Ministry of Construction and Housing organized the first National Housing Conference in Baghdad on 14 and 15 January 2009. It drew wide participation from various national ministries, the Iraqi Parliament, the banking and private sectors, and the international community. Conference participants discussed the challenges and future direction of the housing sector in Iraq, and various ministries and technical specialists from UN‐HABITAT made presentations JWater and HealthcareJ Iraq's marsh Eden in drought threat Source: GT Document: Article Date: February 4, 2009 Access: Open Miles of reed stalks and baked mud are all that can be seen of much of Iraq's ancient marshes this year, as a lack of water threatens to turn one of the world's most important wetlands to wasteland. Thought to be the biblical Garden of Eden, Iraq's marshes have for years been more known locally as a haven for smugglers, bandits and kidnappers. JHumanitarian SpaceJ Draft Iraq NGO Law Source: NCCI Document: Draft law Date: January 26, 2009 Access: Open The latest draft of the Iraq NGO Law. Aid activists eye role in local government Source: IRIN Document: Article Date: February 4, 2009 Access: Open A group of activists wanting to promote humanitarian issues ran in last weekend's local elections. "We decided to run in the elections to… promote humanitarian needs," said activist Basil al‐Azawi. Al‐Azawi's Baghdad‐based Commission for Civil Society Enterprises, which acts as an umbrella group for over 1,000 local NGOs, sponsored three lists of independent candidates representing NGO activists in central Iraq. They put up 83 candidates in all. JCoordinationJ Coordination Meetings for Iraq Source: NCCI Document: Article Date: October 29, 2008 Access: Open Details of coordination meetings concerning Iraq. Iraqi National Development Strategy 2007‐2010 Source: GOI Document: Strategy Paper Date: March, 2007 Access: Open The National Development Strategy of Iraq for the period 2007‐2010 ____________________________________
Reference Documents SOFA Text Date: 2007 Access: Open Source: US Government Document: Status of Forces Agreement Date: November 2008 Access: Open The UN Security Council resolution regarding Iraq for 2007, including the expanded UNAMI mandate Text of the Status of Forces Agreement between the USA and Iraq. Strategic Framework Agreement between the US and Iraq Source: US Government Document: SFA Date: November 2008 Access: Open The Code of Conduct for the ICRC and NGOs in Disaster Relief Source: ICRC Document: Code of Conduct Date: 1994 Access: Open The international code of standards for the ICRC and humanitarian NGOs, working in disaster relief situations. UN SC Resolution 1830 Source: UN Document: SC Resolution Date: 2008 Access: Open Source: UN Document: SC Resolution The UN Security Council resolution setting the mandate of UNAMI Source: UN Document: SC Resolution Date: 2003 Access: Open The UN Security Council resolution establishing UNAMI International Compact with Iraq Source: GoI Document: Compact Date: 2006 Access: Open The International Compact is the initiative of the Government of Iraq for a new partnership with the international community. UN SC Resolution 1511 The latest UN Security Council resolution regarding Iraq and UNAMI. Source: UN Document: SC Resolution Date: 2003 Access: Open UN SC Resolution 1500 Text of the Strategic Framework Agreement between the USA and Iraq. UN SC Resolution 1770 UN SC Resolution 1546 Source: UN Document: SC Resolution Date: 2003 Access: Open The UN Security Council Resolution giving MNF‐I the mandate to be in Iraq. NCCI Weekly Highlight
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UN SC Resolution 1790 Source: UN Document: SC Resolution Date: 2007 Access: Open Iraqi Legal Database The UN Security Council Resolution renewing the MNF‐I the mandate to be in Iraq until 31st December 2008. UN SC Resolution 661 Source: UN Document: SC Resolution Date: 1990 Access: Open The UN Security Council Resolution imposing sanctions on Iraq after the invasion of Kuwait Helsinki II Source: CMI Document: Multi‐National Agreement Date: July 2008 Access: Open All laws, regulations, constitutions and orders etc. of Iraq from 1917to 2008. Guidelines for relations between US armed forces and NGOs Source: InterAction Document: Guidelines Date: 2005 Access: Open Guidelines for relations between US Armed Forces and NGOs in hostile or potentially hostile environments Air Serv Timetable The full text of the Helsinki II agreements International Reconstruction Fund for Iraq Source: IRFFI Document: Fund Date: 2004 Access: Open Information about the Reconstruction Fund for Iraq Source: ILD Document: Database (Arabic) Date: September 2008 Access: Open International Sphere Standards: English/Arabic Source: Sphere Project Document: Code of Practice Date: 2004 Access: Open The Sphere Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response. Iraq’s Political Structure Source: NCCI Document: Timetable Date: December 2008 and January 2009 Access: Members Air Serv’s timetable for December 2008 and January 2009 NGO Assistance Office Guidelines for registering International NGOs in Iraq Source: NCCI Document: Guidelines Date: November 2008 Access: Open Guidelines of the Iraq Ngo Assistance Office for registering international NGOs in Iraq.Please also see the NGO Assistance Office website (in Arabic only at the moment): http://www.ngoao.gov.iq/ Human Rights First: Iraq Refugee Crisis Source: Human Rights First Document: Information Date: 2007‐2009 Access: Open Source: USAID Document: Report Date: 2008 Access: Open A description of the political structure of Iraq. Reports and information on the Iraq refugee crisis. NCCI Weekly Highlight
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Schedule Updates
We encourage you to check regularly our Weekly Schedule on our Website for updates.  February 10th ‐ POT, UNHCR Iraq, Amman 10am Upcoming important dates
 February 8/Safar 13 – Anniversary of Baathist revolution against the Qasim regime  February 12/Safar 18 – Anniversary of the martyrdom of Imam Ali Ridha Updates & Announcements If you have an announcement, if you are aware of meetings, events, humanitarian update or if you would like to make known some information, please details to [email protected]  NCCI is seeking an Executive Coordinator. Further information can be found here  Legal Aid and Intrinsic Management are holding a course entitled; Project Planning and Monitoring Workshop: Advanced skills and legalities for dealing in difficult times. This will be held between the 22nd and 24th February 2009 in Amman. Further information can be found here.  Call for candidates for the 30th International Human Rights Training Program, Montreal, Canada, June 14 to July 3, 2009. Further information can be found here  CVs can be uploaded here  CVs can be checked here NCCI Weekly Highlight
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