http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/ en-us ericlee@labourstart.org 2011-11-03T13:24:45+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/archives/001383.html Following last month's landmark Iraqi Parliamentary screening of the powerful, highly acclaimed film “Son of Babylon ” which has initiated a parliamentary review of Iraq ’s missing person's laws there is a UK Parliamentary screening. The film will be screened... 1383@http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/ 2011-11-03T13:24:45+00:00 http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/archives/001382.html Mark Metcalf has a very valuable overview in Tribune about how extremist elements in Iraq’s new government have the country’s union movement in their sights. This should be a call to action by all democrats concerned to support independent civil... 1382@http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/ 2011-07-01T10:23:18+00:00 http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/archives/001381.html The General Federation of Iraqi Workers (GFIW) calls for the release of trade unionist Jihad Jalil The Iraqi security forces have arrested a group of demonstrators in Tahrir Square in Baghdad, this morning Friday 27/05/2011, while they were participating in... 1381@http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/ 2011-05-28T11:26:18+00:00 http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/archives/001380.html Please back this campaign in defence of Iraqi trade unions... 1380@http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/ 2011-05-11T10:06:13+00:00 http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/archives/001379.html Eight years after the fall of Saddam Hussein's odious regime which used genocide, chemical weapons and torture to repress the Iraqi people and destabilised the wider region with wars of aggression, the record of the elected authorities is infinitely better... 1379@http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/ 2011-04-14T14:14:52+00:00 http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/archives/001378.html See these pictures of recent demonstration in Baghdad... 1378@http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/ 2011-03-12T17:08:24+00:00 http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/archives/001377.html You can see here the Report of the all-party parliamentary group on the Kurdistan Region in Iraq.... 1377@http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/ 2011-03-11T11:26:55+00:00 http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/archives/001376.html The extreme and harsh conditions Iraq and its people are going through is a consequences of failure of the state of Iraq to readdress legitimate grievances such as the erosion of civil liberties including trade union rights to collective bargaining... 1376@http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/ 2011-03-04T16:18:45+00:00 http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/archives/001375.html Labour Friends of Iraq (LFIQ) fully supports the national union protests across Iraq on Sunday 6 March, organised by the General Federation of Iraqi Workers (GFIW) and others for improved job standards and labour rights. The unions will rally around... 1375@http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/ 2011-03-04T15:49:55+00:00 http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/archives/001374.html It is too soon to know how events in Egypt will develop but we should certainly hope that the outcome is a form of democracy that protects pluralism, is based on transparent and independent institutions and which allows groups like... 1374@http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/ 2011-02-07T10:42:53+00:00 http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/archives/001373.html LFIQ Joint President Dave Anderson tabled a written question in the Commons to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent discussions he has had with his Iraqi counterpart on the role of trades unions in... 1373@http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/ 2011-02-02T09:07:59+00:00 http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/archives/001372.html Letter in the Times, December 22 2010 We are deeply concerned about recent actions by several provincial councils in Iraq against basic democratic and cultural rights, in grave violation of the Iraqi Constitution. Baghdad provincial council has ordered the closure... 1372@http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/ 2010-12-22T10:41:25+00:00 http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/archives/001371.html The Iraqi Association based in Hammersmith comments on the latest atrocities in Iraq Our community in Britain shares, with the people of Iraq, the feelings of revulsion, horror and shock over the latest sadistic terrorist attacks. These crimes deserve all... 1371@http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/ 2010-11-03T21:40:50+00:00 http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/archives/001370.html Iraq: Trade Unions Mr Anderson: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make representations to the government of Iraq on the effect of its recent ministerial decree regarding trade unions in the electricity... 1370@http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/ 2010-09-09T11:58:25+00:00 http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/archives/001369.html In a debate in the Mirror Jabbar Hasan, of the Iraqi Association with which LFIQ is proud to work, says that since 2003, we have seen a huge change in the country. Iraq is no longer ruled by a dictator.... 1369@http://www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk/ 2010-08-20T12:45:05+00:00