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Baghdad, Iraq, 31 October 2022 – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Women Empowerment (UNWomen) in Iraq partnered to support women's political participation and representation in Iraq. Today, the two UN agencies sign a US$1 million partnership agreement in Baghdad.

Baghdad, 31 October 2022 - The Human Rights Office of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI HRO), in partnership with INSM for Digital Rights in Iraq, launched today the “Online Protection and Digital Security: User Guide for Human Rights Defenders”. This user-friendly guidance, available in Arabic, English and Kurdish, provides critical knowledge about concrete tools and strategies for human rights defenders and other activists as well as journalists to increase their safety and privacy online.

31 October 2022, Nineveh, Iraq– The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Iraq held a ceremony in Bashiqa district in Nineveh to continue supporting livestock farmers with forage seeds to more than 160 farmers and livestock breeders. The cultivation of fodder in the past two years has contributed to increase in milk productivity in quantity and quality, as part of the European Union’s funded project “Support to agricultural livelihoods of rural and peri-urban returnees and communities in Nineveh Governorate”, and in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture.

Baghdad, 31 October 2022 – Despite an unprecedented showing in the current parliament, for women to win the leverage they seek in Iraq’s male-dominated political system it is essential that they set aside partisan interests and unite in pursuit of better representation and stronger influence across the spectrum.   

Baghdad, Iraq, 30 October 2022 – The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Women Empowerment (UNWomen) in Iraq celebrated the 22nd anniversary of United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 and launched the ministerial and localized sectoral plans in partnership with the Iraqi Department of Women Empowerment at the General Secretariat at the Council of Ministers.

Mosul – In occasion of World Cities Day falling on 31st October, Mr Abdul Sattar, Head of Mosul Municipality, along with Mr. Hassan Al Allaf, Ninewa Deputy Governor, Mr. Ali Omar Gabo, Ninewa Deputy Assistant for Organisations and IDPs, Dr. Raad Jasim Al Abasi, Ninewa Deputy assistant for Planning and Follow-Up Ninewa Governorate, Ms. Barbara Egger, Head of Cooperation at the European Union Delegation to Iraq, and Dr. Erfan Ali, UN-Habitat’s Regional Representative for Arab States, and Mr. Wael Al Ashhab, Head of UN-Habitat Iraq County Programme, unveiled the ceremonial stone to inaugurate the newly rehabilitated Al Yarmouk Park in west Mosul – an iconic public space project made possible through the generous support from the European Union.