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People consider fleeing as violence increases

BAGHDAD, 19 January 2012 (IRIN) - Suicide attacks, assassinations and bombings in Iraq have claimed the lives of at least 265 people and injured hundreds of others since 18 December, the date the USA withdrew all but 200 of its troops from the country, according to the health and interior ministries. full report

IRAQ: New research highlights link between FGM/C and mental disorders

 DUBAI, 13 January 2012 (IRIN) - New data out of Iraq shows what many psychologists suspected though little research had confirmed: Girls who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) are more prone to mental disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). full report

Analysis: 2012 – “The Year of Crisis” in the Middle East

 DUBAI, 12 January 2012 (IRIN) - If you thought 2011 was a historic year for the Middle East, 2012 is likely to be even more unpredictable. full report

MIDDLE EAST: The year that was

 DUBAI, 4 January 2012 (IRIN) - When hundreds of thousands of people across the Arab world poured into the streets in 2011 to demand freedom from dictatorship, they set in motion a series of events which not only created humanitarian needs in countries that were otherwise relatively stable, but also exacerbated existing humanitarian and developmental challenges. full report

Analysis: Worrying signs for Iraq's stability as USA pulls out

 BAGHDAD, 23 December 2011 (IRIN) - Every day, the bleak concrete blast walls circling Baghdad’s northern neighbourhood of Adhamiya trigger flashbacks in the mind of Sahib Awad Maarouf of the violence which plagued Iraq after the 2003 US-led invasion. full report

IRAQ: Overall violence down - but attacks on minorities continue

 BAGHDAD, 5 December 2011 (IRIN) - While overall violence is decreasing in Iraq, the level of attacks and intimidation of religious minorities remains high, leading to increased displacement, a new report says. full report

IRAQ: Hundreds displaced by Iranian shelling

 BAGHDAD, 25 July 2011 (IRIN) - Nearly 200 families have been displaced in Iraq’s self-ruled northern Kurdish region due to Iranian shelling since mid-July of Iranian Kurdish rebels based inside Iraq, say officials. full report

AID POLICY: Record donor aid, record costs

 DAKAR, 20 July 2011 (IRIN) - Institutional donor aid in 2010 was at its highest-ever level - US$16.7 billion - but so were aid costs, says aid watchdog Development Initiatives in its annual Global Humanitarian Assistance (GHA) report, released today. full report

IRAQ: Youth unemployment driving emigration

 BAGHDAD, 20 July 2011 (IRIN) - A just released national youth survey in Iraq says youth unemployment is running at over 20 percent and many young people are thinking of emigrating. full report

IRAQ: A bad place for children

 BAGHDAD, 4 July 2011 (IRIN) - Decades of war and international sanctions have turned Iraq into one of the worst places for children in the Middle East and North Africa, with around 3.5 million living in poverty, 1.5 million under the age of five undernourished and 100 infants dying every day, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) warns. full report

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