Children in the Iraqi Media:
The Reporting of Iraqi Children's Issues and Rights
January 8 – 14, 2012
UNICEF in the Iraqi Media:
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28 schools for Accelerated Learning Program in Salahuddin
UN in the Iraqi Media:
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Kurdistan Health Ministry to take precautions against avian influenza
Migration Ministry prepares a plan for the displaced who refused to return to their original places
Sweden tops the list of European countries in the number of Iraqi refugees
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Ministry of Trade reveals the allocation of four trillion IQD to support the ration card
MoE announces new projects to get rid of mud and dilapidated schools
MoE: the construction of 700 computer labs in Iraq in 5 years
Early marriage and the disruption of the Compulsory Education Law motivate school dropout in Iraq
Falluja Babies: Under a New Kind of Siege
MoH: the BCG vaccine is available for children at 100%
Ministry of Health to build 10 hospitals in Iraq
Ministry of Municipalities begins implementation of water project in Mahaweel
Wasit opens a complex of drinking water at a cost of 576 million IQD
Baghdad Mayoralty plans to open the largest project for recycling waste during 2012
Dead and wounded women and children in a suicide attack west of Basra
A body of a child killed by hanging found in Kut
A man and a child injured in blast north of Baquba
A body of a child stabbed with a sharp tool found in north of Baquba
Three children of al-Sahwa leader injured in attack on his house in Diyala
Three boys killed by a roadside bomb southern Tikrit
Violence against women falling claims Ministry
Women's affairs under discussion in Erbil conference
Iraqi aid to refugees in Iran
All media reports are categorized by key children’s issues within the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
MDG 1
Eradicate extreme poverty & hunger
Poverty
Ministry of Trade reveals the allocation of four trillion IQD to support the ration card
Baghdad – Voice of Iraq News, Sumaria News Site, Bayyna Al-Jadidah Newspaper, Sawa Radio, &
Hurria, Forat TVs, Jan. 9
Trade Minister, Khairallah Hassan Babekir said in a statement, the Economic and Financial Committees in
the Council of Ministers and House of Representatives allocated four trillion IQD to the Ministry of Trade to
buy the ration card items within the budget of 2012, pointing out that the ministry will start to import the ration
card items once the budget approved by Parliament.
Babekir added that the ministry's plan this year is to provide the ration card items through the purchase of
food from the origin directly without the intervention of the mediator, indicating that more than 32 million
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people registered within the system of supply.
Link: http://www.sotaliraq.com/mobile-news.php?id=38085#axzz1ixKicMdB
http://www.alsumarianews.com/ar/iraq-business-news/-3-34231.html
http://www.albayyna-new.com/news.php?action=view&id=5523
http://www.alhurriatv.com/news/15717/
http://www.alforattv.net/?show=news&action=article&id=66135
Breastfeeding
Nothing to report
Malnourishment (under nutrition and obesity)
Nothing to report
Iodized Salt Consumption
Nothing to report
MDG 2
Achieve universal primary education
School Enrolment, Attendance and Completion (pre-School, primary, intermediate and secondary)
Nothing to report
Education Services (infrastructure, quality of education)
MoE announces new projects to get rid of mud and dilapidated schools
Baghdad – Forat TV, Jan. 14
The Ministry of Education announced new projects to replace mud and dilapidated schools in all parts of Iraq.
The Director of Information in the ministry, Sahar Harbi said, "The number of mud schools reached to 410
schools, 127 of which are in the provinces of (Basra, Maysan, Thi Qar, Muthanna) at a cost of 57 billion IQD
have been referred to a company under the Ministry of Industry, 181 schools in the provinces of (Mosul,
Kirkuk , Salahuddin, Diyala) at a cost of 125 billion IQD have been referred to another company under the
Ministry of industry and 102 schools in (Baghdad Karkh, Rusafa, Wasit, Diwaniya, Babil) at a cost of 48
billion IQD have been referred to a company under the Ministry of housing and Construction.
She added: "As for replacing the dilapidated schools, 450 schools in the city centers will be replaced with
new schools built in a ready-made construction way in less than a year.
Harbi continued, "The schools of steel structures have been referred to a private company guaranteed by the
Bank of the North and the work will be completed within nine months”.
Link: http://www.alforattv.net/?show=news&action=article&id=66452
28 schools for Accelerated Learning Program in Salahuddin
Tikrit – Assabah Newspaper & Ishtar, Fayhaa TVs, Jan. 9
Directorate of Education in Salahuddin, in collaboration with UNICEF, began the application of the
Accelerating Learning Program (ALP) in the province.
Member of the ALP in the directorate, the supervisor Mohammed Rashid Kablan said that this project aims to
teach the largest possible number of young people who have missed the opportunity to learn because of the
security situation that prevailed during the past years, and those who leave school for economic reasons.
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He explained that 28 schools were opened across the province to accommodate more than three thousand
students have applied to study in this program.
Link: http://www.alsabaah.com/ArticleShow.aspx?ID=19805
http://ishtartv.com/viewarticle,40170.html
http://www.alfayhaa.tv/news/govnews/73394.html?print
MoE: the construction of 700 computer labs in Iraq in 5 years
Baghdad - Attaakhi Newspaper. Jan. 8
Directorate of School Buildings revealed its plan to build 700 computer labs with the furnishings within the
budget investment in Iraq in five years.
The director of School Buildings, Habib al-Shammari said 46 computer labs have been forwarded to
implementation in 9 governorates (Baghdad 16, Anbar 5, Muthanna 2, Diyala 1, Thi Qar 5, Salahuddin 3, Kut
5, Mosul 6 and Wasit 3).
He pointed out that 22 labs of which have been completed (Baghdad 9, Anbar 5, Muthanna 2, Diyala 1 and
Kut 5) at a cost of 70 billion IQD.
Link: http://www.altaakhipress.com/printart.php?art=7750
MDG 3
Eliminate gender disparity in primary education
Girls School Enrolment, Attendance and Completion (pre-School, primary, intermediate and
secondary)
Nothing to report
Women’s Literacy
Early marriage and the disruption of the Compulsory Education Law motivate school dropout in Iraq
Baghdad - Voice of Iraq News, Jan. 12
Many are the children who drop out of school because of economic conditions and the long distance to
school from their homes which require additional expenses for the transportation, especially in remote areas
outside the cities.
One of the local studies in the city of Nasiriya, south of Baghdad, indicated that one third of the students drop
out of school every year for various reasons including the economic situation, and that the drop-out is higher
among girls.
Although the phenomenon of school drop-outs are not new in Iraq, but the law of compulsory education,
which was known before made a limit for its aggravation.
Statistics prepared by the Ministry of Education in the past two years, confirmed the high rate of children
dropping out of school in the last five years, and that this leak has caused economic losses in the sector of
government free education, and according to statistics available at the ministry, the dropout rates among girls
in cities are close to leak rates of males, but in remote villages the rates go up to 45 percent in primary
school and 85 percent in secondary schools.
Drop out that was detected, based on samples of children have decided to study and then left their seats
prior to the completion stages, but did not address the children who live in remote areas and were unable to
enter schools.
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The reasons for girls dropping out were returned mainly to early marriage, where girls leave school after the
engagement a few days or weeks at the request of the groom, and to the economic situation of families who
paid to force their daughters to leave the study for not being able to cover their needs.
The study found that the repeal of the compulsory military service was one of the most important causes of
leakage of males in secondary school. As laws in force before the fall of the regime in April 2003 had
exempted the studying students from compulsory military service, and reduce the duration to six months for
university graduates and three months for graduates of higher education.
These laws prompted many young people to adhere to the study for fear of turning into fuel for wars that took
place in the country in past years, but the end of the wars and the abolition of the law of compulsory service
have increased the leakage of boys from schools on the contrary of girls who often drop out of school under
the pressure of the family.
Some families, in demonstrations organized months ago, called for the return of the law of compulsory
service to be the motive for their children to complete their studies, but other families object this procedure
and see that it would encourage their children to drop out of schools, particularly the salaries of employees in
the military are much better than the salaries of university graduates, as well as the army's presence in the
cities and not on the border as it was in the past.
Link: http://www.sotaliraq.com/iraq-news.php?id=38500#axzz1jG3jbfo7
MDG 4
Reduce child mortality
Child Deaths (diseases, health-related)
Falluja Babies: Under a New Kind of Siege
Falluja – Voice of Iraq News, Iraq for All News, Mada & Mowaten Newspapers, Jan. 9
While the US military has formally withdrawn from Iraq, doctors and residents of Falluja are blaming weapons
like depleted uranium and white phosphorous used during two devastating US attacks on Falluja in 2004 for
what are being described as "catastrophic" levels of birth defects and abnormalities.
Dr. Samira Alani, a paediatric specialist at Falluja General Hospital, has taken a personal interest in
investigating an explosion of congenital abnormalities that have mushroomed in the wake of the US sieges
since 2005.
"We have all kinds of defects now, ranging from congenital heart disease to severe physical abnormalities,
both in numbers you cannot imagine," Alani told Al Jazeera at her office in the hospital, while showing
countless photos of shocking birth defects.
As of December 21, Alani, who has worked at the hospital since 1997, told Al Jazeera she had personally
logged 677 cases of birth defects since October 2009. Just eight days later when Al Jazeera visited the city
on December 29, that number had already risen to 699.
"There are not even medical terms to describe some of these conditions because we've never seen them
until now," she said. "So when I describe it all I can do is describing the physical defects, but I'm unable to
provide a medical term."
Most of these babies in Falluja die within 20 to 30 minutes after being born, but not all.
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Four-year-old Abdul-Jaleel Mohammed was born in October 2007. His clinical diagnosis includes dilation of
two heart ventricles, and a growth on his lower back that doctors have not been able to remove.
Abdul-Jaleel has trouble controlling his muscles, struggles to walk, cannot control his bladder, and weakens
easily. Doctors told his father, Mohammed Jaleel Abdul-Rahim, that his son has severe nervous system
problems, and could develop fluid build-up in his brain as he ages, which could prove fatal.
"This is the first instance of something like this in all our family," Rahim told Al Jazeera. "We lived in an area
that was heavily bombed by the Americans in 2004, and a missile landed right in front of our home. What
else could cause these health problems besides this?"
Dr. Alani told Al Jazeera that in the vast majority of cases she has documented, the family had no prior
history of congenital abnormalities.
Alani showed Al Jazeera hundreds of photos of babies born with cleft palates, elongated heads, a baby born
with one eye in the centre of its face, overgrown limbs, short limbs, and malformed ears, noses and spines.
She told Al Jazeera of cases of "thanatophoric dysplasia", an abnormality in bones and the thoracic cage that
"render the newborn incompatible with life".
Rahim said many of his relatives that have had babies after 2004 are having problems as well.
"One of them was born and looks like a fish," Rahim said. "I also personally know of at least three other
families who live near us who have these problems also."
For now, the family is worried how Abdul-Jaleel will fare in school when he is enrolled next year. Mawloud
Ahmed Jassim, Abdul-Jaleel's grandfather, added, "We've seen so many miscarriages happen, and we don't
know why."
"The growth on his back is so sensitive and painful for him," Rahim said. "What will happen in school?"
Jassim is angered by a lack of thorough investigations into the health crisis.
"Why is the government not investigating this," he asked. "Western media seem interested, but neither our
local media nor the governments are."
In April 2011, Iraqi lawmakers debated whether the US attacks on the city constituted genocide. Resolutions
that called for international prosecution, however, went nowhere.
Alani, along with Dr. Christopher Busby, a British scientist and activist who has carried out research into the
risks of radioactive pollution, collected hair samples from 25 parents of families with children who have birth
defects and sent them to a laboratory in Germany for analysis.
Alani and Busby, along with other doctors and researchers, published a study in September 2011 from data
obtained by analyzing the hair samples, as well as soil and water samples from the city.
Mercury, Uranium, Bismuth and other trace elements were found.
The report's conclusion states: "Whilst caution must be exercised about ruling out other possibilities, because
none of the elements found in excess are reported to cause congenital diseases and cancer except Uranium,
these findings suggest the enriched Uranium exposure is either a primary cause or related to the cause of
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the congenital anomaly and cancer increases. Questions are thus raised about the characteristics and
composition of weapons now being deployed in modern battlefields."
"As doctors, we know Mercury, Uranium and Bismuth can contribute to the development of congenital
abnormalities, and we think it could be related to the use of prohibited weapons by the Americans during
these battles," Alani said.
"I made this link to a coroner's inquest in the West Midlands into the death of a Gulf War One veteran... and
a coroner's jury accepted my evidence," Busby told Al Jazeera.
"It's been found by a coroner's court that cancer was caused by an exposure to depleted uranium," he
added, "In the last 10 years, research has emerged that has made it quite clear that uranium is one of the
most dangerous substances known to man, certainly in the form that it takes when used in these wars."
In July 2010, Busby released a study that showed a 12-fold increase in childhood cancer in Falluja since the
2004 attacks. The report also showed the sex ratio had declined from normal to 86 boys to 100 girls, together
with a spread of diseases indicative of genetic damage similar to but of far greater incidence than Hiroshima.
Dr. Alani visited Japan recently, where she met with Japanese doctors who study birth defect rates they
believe related to radiation from the US nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
She was told birth defect incidence rates there are between 1-2 per cent. Alani's log of cases of birth defects
amounts to a rate of 14.7 per cent of all babies born in Falluja, more than 14 times the rate in the affected
areas of Japan.
In Babil Province in southern Iraq, the head of the Babil Cancer Centre, Dr. Sharif al-Alwachi, said cancer
rates have been escalating at alarming rates since 2003, for which he blames the use of depleted uranium
weapons by US forces during and following the 2003 invasion.
"The environment could be contaminated by chemical weapons and depleted uranium from the aftermath of
the war on Iraq," Dr. Alwachi told Al Jazeera. "The air, soil and water are all polluted by these weapons, and
as they come into contact with human beings they become poisonous. This is new to our region, and people
are suffering here."
The US and UK militaries have sent mixed signals about the effects of depleted uranium, but Iraqi doctors
like Alwachi and Alani, and along with researchers, blame the increasing cancer and birth defect rates on the
weapon.
Abdulhaq al-Ani, author of Uranium in Iraq, has been researching the effects of depleted uranium on Iraqis
since 1991. He told Al Jazeera he personally measured radiation levels in the city of Karbala, as well as in
Basra, and his Geiger counter was "screaming" because "the indicator went beyond the range".
Alani explained that she is the only doctor in Falluja registering cases of congenital abnormalities.
"We have no system to register all of them, so we have so many cases we are missing," she said. "Just
yesterday a colleague told me of a newborn with thanatophoric dysplasia and she did not register it. I think I
only know of 40-50 per cent of the cases because so many families have their babies at home and we never
know of these, and other clinics are not registering them either."
The hospital where Alani does her work was constructed in the Dhubat district of Falluja in 2008. According
to Alani, the district was bombed heavily during the November 2004 siege.
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"There is also a primary school that was built nearby, and from that school alone three teachers developed
breast cancer, and now two of them are dead," Alani said. "We get so many cases from this area, right where
the hospital is."
Even with a vast amount of anecdotal evidence, the exact cause of the health crisis in Falluja is currently
inconclusive without an in-depth, comprehensive study, which has yet to be carried out.
But despite lack of governmental support, and very little support from outside Iraq, Alani is determined to
continue her work.
"I will not leave this subject", she told Al Jazeera. "I will not stop."
Link: http://www.sotaliraq.com/iraq-news.php?id=38088#axzz1ixKicMdB
http://iraq4allnews.dk/ShowNews.php?id=27979
http://almadapaper.net/news.php?action=view&id=57211
http://www.almowatennews.com/news.php?action=view&id=33422
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Immunization
MoH: the BCG vaccine is available for children at 100%
Baghdad – Nina, Mutamar, Mustakbal Al-Iraqi, Mashriq Newspapers, Forat TV & Dijla Radio, Jan. 8
Ministry of Health announced the availability of the BCG vaccine for newborn children at 100 percent in all
health centers and hospitals of the ministry.
The director of the General Company for Importing and Distribution of Medicines and Health Appliances at
the Ministry of Health, Dr. Ihsan Jaafar said there is no problem with the BCG vaccine for children and it is
available to complete the schedule vaccinations as well as the existence of contracts to ensure the continued
flow of the vaccine in the coming months to address the demand for it.
The ministry has imported a million doses of the finest vaccines (Japanese), in addition to the weekly
shipments with the availability of other important types of vaccines.
Link: http://www.ninanews.com/Arabic/News_Details.asp?ar95_VQ=FJJGLL
http://www.almutmar.com/index.php?id=201219131
http://almustakbalpaper.org/ArticleShow.aspx?ID=15832
http://www.almashriqnews.com/inp/view.asp?ID=10736
http://www.alforattv.net/index.php?show=news&action=article&id=66012
http://www.radiodijla.com/cgi-bin/news/news_item.pl?id=2012-01-07%2008:26:49
MDG 5
Improve maternal health
Mothers Dying at Birth
Nothing to report
Maternal Health Services (infrastructure, medical treatment)
Nothing to report
MDG 6
Combat HIV and AIDS, Malaria and other diseases
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Health Services (infrastructure, medical treatment, etc.)
Ministry of Health to build 10 hospitals in Iraq
Baghdad - Voice of Iraq News & Mashriq, Assabah Newspapers, Jan. 10
The Director of the Department of Projects in the Ministry of Health, Dhafir al-Saadi said the ministry has
prepared a plan to expand health institutions in Iraq until 2014.
He added that ministry has been able to accomplish many of the projects within the investment plan and
others under implementation, as it began to establish 10 hospitals of a capacity of 400 beds in Baghdad Maysan - Basra - Karbala - Diwaniya - Thi Qar - Diyala - Najaf - Ninawa and Babil, and to establish 5 other
hospitals of a capacity of 400 beds in Salahuddin, and 200 beds in Anbar, and 200 beds and 400 beds in
Kirkuk, Wasit and Muthanna.
He pointed out that the ministry is studying the establishment of 5 hospitals for births and children of a
capacity of 300 beds with full processing in Baghdad (Rusafa & Karkh), Thi Qar and Diyala, and two
hospitals of 200 beds in Baghdad (Rusafa) and Anbar, as well as establishing 107 health centers in Baghdad
and the provinces, in addition to the establishment of 10 drug stores in Baghdad and the provinces.
Saadi noted that the ministry is about to establish buildings of the accelerator for the treatment of cancer
tumors in Basra, Babil, Anbar, Baghdad, Medical City Hospital, and Radiation and Nuclear Medicine Hospital
with the rehabilitation and expansion of 10 health centers, 5 in Babil, 1 in Thi Qar, 4 in Karbala and the
rehabilitation of warehouses in Baghdad and the provinces.
Link: http://www.sotaliraq.com/iraq-news.php?id=38107#axzz1ixKicMdB
http://www.almashriqnews.com/inp/view.asp?ID=10945
http://www.alsabaah.com/ArticleShow.aspx?ID=19869
Kurdistan Health Ministry to take precautions against avian influenza
Erbil – NINA, Peyamner Agencies & Mashriq, Mada Newspapers, Jan. 10
The Ministry of Health of the Kurdistan Regional Government announced that it had taken several
precautionary measures to prevent the spread of flu epidemic after the record of its appearance in a number
of countries in the region.
The spokesman of the ministry, Dr. Khalis Qadir said, "We did not record any case in the region, whether bird
flu or any other epidemic diseases, but after recording cases of bird flu in Egypt, China, and the Declaration
of the WHO to the world about the need to take precautionary measures of these epidemics, we have taken
the required procedures and preventive measures."
Link: http://ninanews.com/arabic/News_Details.asp?ar95_VQ=FJJJEF
http://www.peyamner.com/Arabic/PNAnews.aspx?nID=262340
http://www.almashriqnews.com/inp/view.asp?ID=10944
http://almadapaper.net/news.php?action=view&id=57286
MDG 7
Ensure environmental sustainability – Safe drinking water & basic sanitation
Access to Safe Water
Ministry of Municipalities begins implementation of water project in Mahaweel
Babil - Voice of Iraq News, All Iraq News Agency, Mashriq Newspaper & Forat TV, Jan. 8
Member of Mahaweel District Council said that the Ministry of Municipalities and Public Works started to
implement a water project in Mahaweel District north of Babil.
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Riadh Ibrahim said yesterday that "the cost of the project has reached to 99 billion IQD, and its capacity is
10,000 cubic meters per hour."
He explained that "the project will feed areas of Mahaweel District, Jabla, Imam Townships and its villages."
Link: http://www.sotaliraq.com/business.php?id=5063#axzz1iqtaLecR
http://www.alliraqnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=23646:-99-&catid=39:2011-0408-17-26-45&Itemid=58
http://www.almashriqnews.com/inp/view.asp?ID=10713
http://www.alforattv.net/index.php?show=news&action=article&id=66061
Wasit opens a complex of drinking water at a cost of 576 million IQD
Kut – Hurria TV, Jan. 8
The administration of Wasit Province announced the opening of a new complex of drinking water at a cost of
576 million IQD with a capacity of 50 cubic meters per hour.
The Director of Information in the administration, Majid al-Etabi, said the governor of Wasit Mahdi Hussein alZubaidi has opened, a new complex of drinking water on the road of Numaniya - Shomali to Karbala,
indicating that the project which was carried out within the projects of development of the regions, cost
576,969,000 IQD, and that its production capacity reaches to 50 cubic meters per hour.
Wasit Water Department had carried out during the past year, 32 projects across the areas of the province,
most of them were water complexes of 50 to 200 cubic meters per day, where the total cost of these projects
reached to 27, 83,028,000 IQD, and developed a plan for the current year to implement more than 25 water
projects distributed according to actual need, but the majority of which will be carried out in villages and rural
areas deprived of drinking water.
Link: http://www.alhurriatv.com/news/15701/
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Access to Adequate Sanitation
Nothing to report
Garbage Collection and Disposal
Baghdad Mayoralty plans to open the largest project for recycling waste during 2012
Baghdad - Independent Iraqi News Agency, Iraqi Media Network & Forat TV, Jan. 12
Baghdad Mayoralty assured that the current year will witness the opening of the largest project for the
management of the waste sector, which includes two laboratories for sorting, recycling and safely treatment
and convert part of it to organic fertilizers.
The mayoralty said in a statement Wednesday that "the integrated management project of the waste sector,
which includes two laboratories for sorting, recycling, waste treatment and is the largest in the Middle East,
will be completed this year," adding that "this project came to improve the environmental situation in the
capital Baghdad and recycling of waste and convert the right ones to organic fertilizers as well as the
disposal of the remaining in modern healthy landfills that do not affect the soil or groundwater and to ensure
complete protection of the environment. "
The mayoralty explained that "Afnan Turkish Company achieved advanced completion rates in the
implementation of the two screening plants at a cost of 105 billion IQD, one in Karkh side and the other in
Rusafa side of the capital Baghdad," noting that "every plant consists of 3 units, the first to re-sort the waste,
the second for the production of compost and the third is a typical landfill cell."
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It showed that "this management also consists of 9 stations in Karkh and Rusafa carried out by Akzim
Turkish Company at a cost of 26 billion IQD have been completed fully in order to collect waste and
composting in closed containers and then transported by specialized mechanisms to recycling of waste
factory for sorting and pressing the remains to move it to the landfill sites".
Link: http://www.ina-iraq.com/news/local/9090.html
http://www.imn.iq/news/view.9291/
http://www.alforattv.net/index.php?show=news&action=article&id=66358
Child Protection
Birth Registration (identity)
Nothing to report
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Early Childhood Marriage
Nothing to report
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Disabled Children (physical and mental)
Nothing to report
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Youth Employment
Nothing to report
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Orphans
Nothing to report
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Child Labour
Nothing to report
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Violence Against Children (beating, maiming, killing, abduction, trafficking, sexual, forced genital
mutilation, etc.)
Dead and wounded women and children in a suicide attack west of Basra
Basra - Sumaria News Site, Jan. 14
According to a police source in Basra province, Saturday, a number of civilians killed and wounded, including
women and children, in a suicide attack by an explosive belt west of the province.
The source said that "suicide bomber wearing an explosive belt blew himself up, this morning, targeting
citizens on their way to the mosque in a neighborhood (8 km west of Basra), resulting in a number of dead
and wounded, including women and children not knowing their number yet."
Link: http://www.alsumarianews.com/ar/2/34537/news-details-.html
A body of a child killed by hanging found in Kut
Wasit – Ikhbariya News Agency, Jan. 14
A body of a child found two days after he was kidnapped in Kut.
A security source of Wasit police said today that the police found the body of a child no more than six years
old behind the building of police in Kut.
He disclosed that the medical report showed that the child exposed to torture and murder by hanging by a
rope on his neck.
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He explained that the child is a student in first primary grade and had been kidnapped two days ago by
unknown persons who demanded relatives to pay a huge ransom.
Link: http://www.ikhnews.com/news.php?action=view&id=29993
A man and a child injured in blast north of Baquba
Diyala - Sumaria News Site & Independent Iraqi News Agency, Jan. 12
A security source in Diyala province, Wednesday, reported that a man and a child were wounded when a
roadside bomb exploded north of Baquba.
The source said that "an explosive device was placed close to a residential home in Anafsa area (4 km north
of Baquba) exploded yesterday, injuring a man and a child were passing by," noting that "the injured were
taken to Baquba General Hospital to receive treatment ".
Link: http://alsumarianews.tv/ar/2/34444/news-details-Iraq%20security%20news.html
http://www.ina-iraq.com/news/security/9113.html
A body of a child stabbed with a sharp tool found in north of Baquba
Diyala - Sumaria News Site & Independent Iraqi News Agency, Jan. 12
According to a police source in Diyala province, Wednesday, a security force found the body of a child
stabbed with a sharp tool in north of Baquba.
The source said that "A police force found, yesterday evening, the body of a four-year-old thrown in the mud
near a deserted house near Qara Tappa Township (112 km north of Baquba) stabbed in the chest with a
sharp tool."
The source, who requested anonymity, added that "A police force cordoned off the scene and opened an
investigation, while the body was transferred to the mortuary."
Link: http://alsumarianews.tv/ar/2/34443/news-details-Iraq%20security%20news.html
http://www.ina-iraq.com/news/security/9114.html
Three children of al-Sahwa leader injured in attack on his house in Diyala
Diyala - Aswat al-Iraq News Agency, Jan. 12
Three children of a leader of the pro-government al-Sahwa (Awakening) Organization, have been injured in
an attack on his house in central Baquba, the center of northeast Iraq's Diyala Province on Wednesday, a
security source reported.
"Three children of one of the leaders of al-Sahwa (Awakening) Organization in central Baquba have been
injured, one of them seriously, in an explosion that caused severe damage to his house in al-Noura district,"
the security source stressed, adding that the leader was not at his house when the attack took place.
Link:
http://en.aswataliraq.info/(S(bjrsqhmwqebeir45vcev0xas))/Default1.aspx?page=article_page&id=146460&l=1
Three boys killed by a roadside bomb southern Tikrit
Tikrit – Voice of Iraq News, Ikhbariya News Agency, Sumaria News Site, Assabah, Mowaten
Newspapers & Sawa Radio, Jan. 10
A roadside bomb attack in the village of Yathreb, in Salahuddin province, around 70 kilometers north of the
capital, three boys aged between nine and 11 years old were killed while going to school, a police officer and
a medic at nearby Balad Hospital said.
Link: http://www.sotaliraq.com/iraq-news.php?id=38281#axzz1ixKicMdB
http://www.ikhnews.com/news_view_29708.html
http://www.alsumarianews.com/ar/2/34349/news-details-.html
http://www.alsabaah.com/ArticleShow.aspx?ID=19953
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http://www.almowatennews.com/news_view_33485.html
http://www.radiosawa.com/iraq/arabic_news.aspx?id=8072405&cid=24
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Violence Against Women (beating, rape)
Violence against women falling claims Ministry
Erbil – AKnews Agency, Jan. 12
According to a statistic from Kurdistan Regional Ministry of Interior, 1,537 cases of violence against women
were recorded in 2011. The ministry claims this is a decrease on previous years.
Kurda Omar, general director for following up violence against women, told a press conference today that in
the three Governorates of Kurdistan and the disputed Garmiyan area there were 43 murders of women, 44
suicides, 228 cases of burning, 123 cases of immolation, 990 cases of torture and 109 cases of sexual
aggression against women.
He did not provide any figures for comparison with the previous years.
Link: http://www.aknews.com/en/aknews/3/283883/
Women's affairs under discussion in Erbil conference
Erbil - Voice of Iraq News, AKnews Agency, Alforat News Agency, Aswat al-Iraq News Agency,
Mowaten Newspaper & Kurdsat TV, Jan. 8
The International Republican Institute (IRI) held a conference today to discuss the status of women and
various legislations.
The two-day conference is trying to "fill the gap between the Iraqi law and legislation (Shari'a) in a manner
that will serve the Iraqi society, including women," Mr.
Kallumadanda Sujey, director of the governmental section in IRI, announced today.
In the opening of the conference, Iraqi secretary of the Cabinet Dr. Ali al-Allaq confirmed the necessity to
consolidate the bases of the system, which is passing through a new experiment nowadays.
Minister of Women Affairs Ibtihal al-Zaidi described the conference as "an important step in building
democracy in Iraq", pointing out that "much legislations require amendments".
She disclosed that anti-family violence law reached to its final stages for endorsement by the Iraqi
parliament.
Participants from the Iraqi Cabinet, Higher Judicial Council, the Parliament, Higher Women Affairs Council in
Kurdistan and NGOs took part in the conference.
Link: http://www.sotaliraq.com/iraq-news.php?id=37904#axzz1iqtaLecR
http://www.aknews.com/ar/aknews/3/282780/
http://www.alforatnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4004:2012-01-07-15-0457&catid=39:2011-04-08-17-26-45&Itemid=59
http://en.aswataliraq.info/(S(x2252p4522hurs45twibt1zm))/Default1.aspx?page=article_page&id=146389&l=1
http://www.almowatennews.com/news_view_33204.html
http://www.kurdsat.tv/news.php?id=417&type=kurdistan
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Displacement (internal and refugee)
Migration Ministry prepares a plan for the displaced who refused to return to their original places
Baghdad – Ikhbariya News Agency, Jan. 13
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Minister of Displacement and Migration, Dindar Doski said that the ministry is developing a plan for the
displaced who refused to return to their places of origin for integration with the new communities.
He added in a statement that the ministry in coordination with local governments and other parties is looking
in the possibility of adapting these people in their new communities, pointing out that the highest rate of
return was recorded since 2008 until now during this year.
Doski noted that the ministry is to send specialized teams to conduct a questionnaire among displaced
families to see how many of them want to merge, and then the ministry will allocate a grant to them, and
solve some problems that they suffer in cooperation with local governments in those provinces.
Iraq had witnessed one of the largest voluntary return movements in the past four years estimated at 500
thousand of returnees to their areas of origin, whether they were displaced from areas inside Iraq or outside,
while UNHCR is collaborating with the Iraqi government to support the internally displaced and abroad
returnees with urgent needs.
Link: http://www.ikhnews.com/news.php?action=view&id=29921
Iraqi aid to refugees in Iran
Erbil – AKnews Agency & Voice of Iraq News, Jan. 10
Iraqi government has allocated $1.6 million USD in aid to Iraqi refugees living in Iran, says Migration Minister
Dindar Doski.
The aid will be extended to families in the Islamic Republic who have been living there since they fled
persecution under the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in the 1980s.
“The Ministry of Migration has formed a committee which will start distributing the aid via four subordinate
committees in the coming days,” Doski added. “In total, about 5,000 families will benefit.”
Doski said that all those Iraqis who fled to Iran before and after the 2003 war due to religious discrimination
will benefit from the aid.
Link: http://www.aknews.com/en/aknews/2/283262/
http://www.sotaliraq.com/iraq-news.php?id=38201#axzz1ixKicMdB
Sweden tops the list of European countries in the number of Iraqi refugees
Baghdad – AKnews Agency & Voice of Iraq News, Jan. 8
The Ministry of Displacement and Migration, Saturday, revealed that Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands and
Norway top the list of the European countries with the largest number of Iraqi refugees.
The Minister of Migration, Dindar Doski said today that "Sweden tops the list of countries where the number
of refugees is 60,000 Iraqis, the Netherlands 50,000 and Norway 36,000."
"The ministry is working to provide adequate supplies to these families with the European community," Doski
explained, adding that "the ministry will close the displaced people file in Iraq in 2012 after the return of
displaced families, or their integration with the new society."
The UNHCR has announced last June that more than 472 thousand Iraqi refugees and displaced people
have returned to their home areas in Iraq.
Link: http://www.aknews.com/ar/aknews/4/282842/
http://www.sotaliraq.com/mobile-news.php?id=37955#axzz1iqtaLecR
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Media Coverage Summary
Media
Newspapers
No. of articles
MDGs
Issue
UNICEF
Bayyna AlJadidah
1
1-Eradicate Poverty
1-Poverty
Assabah
1
1
1
2-Primary Education
6-Combat diseases
Child protection
2-Education Services
6-Health Services
Violence Against Children
Attaakhi
1
2-Primary Education
2-Education Services
Mada
1
1
4-Reduce child mortality
6-Combat diseases
4-Child deaths
6-Health Services
Mowaten
1
2
4-Reduce child mortality
Child protection
4-Child deaths
Violence Against Children & Violence
Against Women
Mutamar
1
4-Reduce child mortality
4-Immunization
Mustakbal Al-Iraqi
1
4-Reduce child mortality
4-Immunization
Mashriq
1
2
1
4-Reduce child mortality
6-Combat diseases
7-Environmental sustainability
4-Immunization
6-Health Services
7-Safe water
Sawa
1
1
1-Eradicate Poverty
Child protection
1-Poverty
Violence Against Children
Dijla
1
4-Reduce child mortality
4-Immunization
Hurria
1
1
1-Eradicate Poverty
7-Environmental sustainability
1-Poverty
7-Safe water
Forat
1
1
1
2
1-Eradicate Poverty
2-Primary Education
4-Reduce child mortality
7-Environmental sustainability
1-Poverty
2-Education Services
4-Immunization
7-Safe water & Garbage
Ishtar
1
2-Primary Education
2-Education Services
1
Fayhaa
1
2-Primary Education
2-Education Services
1
Kurdsat
1
Child protection
Violence Against Women
1
1
1
1
1
4
1-Eradicate Poverty
3-Eliminate gender disparity
4-Reduce child mortality
6-Combat diseases
7-Environmental sustainability
Child protection
1-Poverty
3-Women’s literacy
4-Child deaths
6-Health Services
7-Safe water
Violence Against Children, Violence Against
Women & Displacement
Sumaria News
Site
1
4
1-Eradicate Poverty
Child protection
1-Poverty
Violence Against Children
Iraq for All News
1
4-Reduce child mortality
4-Child deaths
NINA
1
1
4-Reduce child mortality
6-Combat diseases
4-Immunization
6-Health Services
UN
1
1
1
Radio
TV
Web-Based
Voice of Iraq
News
1
1
14
Peyamner
1
6-Combat diseases
6-Health Services
All Iraq News
Agency
1
7-Environmental sustainability
7-Safe water
Independent Iraqi
News Agency
1
3
7-Environmental sustainability
Child protection
7-Garbage
Violence Against Children
Iraqi Media
Network
1
7-Environmental sustainability
7-Garbage
Aswat al-Iraq
2
Child protection
Violence Against Children & Violence
Against Women
Ikhbariya News
Agency
3
Child protection
Violence Against Children & Displacement
1
AK News
4
Child protection
Violence Against Women & Displacement
1
Alforat News
Agency
1
Child protection
Violence Against Women
1
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