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Baghdad, Iraq, 12 February 2023 – Today, the United Nations marks the first ever International Day for the Prevention of Violent Extremism as and when conducive to terrorism. In December 2022, the General Assembly designated this international day to advocate the dangers of violent extremism and the international cooperation required to prevent it. The designation itself was introduced by the representative of Iraq, emphasizing how Iraq has suffered at the hands of terrorist groups.

13 February 2023 - The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) is honored to have received His Excellency Mr. Futoshi Matsumoto, Ambassador of Japan to Iraq, to Bab Sinjar Housing in west Mosul, Ninawa Governorate, social housing complex constructed by UN-Habitat Iraq under the project titled “Support to Reconstruction and Peacebuilding of Liberated Cities in Iraq” funded by the Government of Japan.

Solagh, Sinjar – As the Yazidi community in Iraq continues to rebuild in the wake of genocide, construction of a cemetery and memorial in Solagh, Sinjar, has officially commenced. Launched by Nadia’s Initiative (NI) in 2021 in response to requests from the Yazidi community, NI spent the last two years designing the cemetery and memorial in partnership with community members and a Yazidi architect. This week, construction is officially underway with support from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Iraq and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). 

Baghdad, 8 February 2023

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), represented by Dr. Salah ElHajj Hassan, FAO Country Representative, held with the Ministry of Water Resources the first meeting of the Steering Committee of the project funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs "Land and Water Monitoring by Remote Sensing, the second phase of the WaPOR project”