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March 2023
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Press Release
Challenges to Investigating ISIL Gender-Based Crimes Discussed in the 5th Thematic Roundtable of the UNITAD-NGO Dialogue Forum

Baghdad 01 March 2023: The United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/ISIL convened the Fifth Thematic Roundtable of the UNITAD-NGO Dialogue Forum titled “Towards holding ISIL perpetrators accountable for international crimes: Investigating Gender-based Crimes”, bringing together 50 participants from civil society organizations and UNITAD team members, to reflect on the work that has been done so far in investigating ISIL’s gender-based crimes, and exchange thoughts and best practices to strengthen UNITAD’s cooperation with the NGO community in this area. 

March 2023
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UNDP and USAID reopen Ninewa’s Medical Fluids Factory to strengthen Iraq's health system

1 March 2023, Mosul/Baghdad, Iraq - Today, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Alina Romanowski, and Deputy Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Iraq, Ghimar Deeb, participated in the reopening of the Ninewa Medical Fluids Factory, which will provide over 300 jobs and strengthen Ninewa's capacity to produce essential medical fluids.

March 2023
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On 2nd Anniversary of YSL: Yezidi Survivors See First Benefits of Landmark Reparations Law

Mosul – On March 1, the Directorate of Survivors Affairs (Directorate) distributed the first salary payments promised under the Yezidi Survivors Law (YSL) to survivors of Daesh’s 2014 genocide against Iraq’s Yezidi, Shabak, Turkmen and Christian communities – two years to the day since the Law’s adoption by the Iraqi Council of Representatives.