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Iraq's Climate Crisis is a Human Rights Crisis

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Sarah Sanbar Iraq Researcher, Middle East and North Africa Division ( Human Rights Watch ) – By any metric, Iraq’s environment is under severe pressure. Lakes, rivers, and marshlands are shrinking, and in some cases entirely disappearing. Sandstorms are increasing in frequency and severity, resulting in hospitalizations and the grounding of flights. Decades of conflict-related pollution, a de-prioritization of environmental policy, weak environm…

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Iraq's Climate Crisis is a Human Rights Crisis

Sarah Sanbar Iraq Researcher, Middle East and North Africa Division ( Human Rights Watch ) – By any metric, Iraq’s environment is under severe pressure. Lakes, rivers, and marshlands are shrinking, and in some cases entirely disappearing. Sandstorms are increasing in frequency and severity, resulting in hospitalizations and the grounding of flights. Decades of conflict-related pollution, a de-prioritization of environmental policy, weak environm…

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Why is Iraq’s Climate Crisis a Human Rights Crisis?

The climate crisis in Iraq represents not just an environmental emergency, it is also an important humanitarian crisis affecting large segments of the population. Millions are affected by water scarcity, extreme heat,and land degradation resulting in higher levels of displacement, poverty and food insecurity along with its pre-existing socio economic fragility.  Farmers, who lose their...

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