Also known as a bastion of sex trafficking:

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Out of the about 100 people in that third photo, just 7 are women. Presumably there were more women at the event, but this is what they chose to present.

1001 Iraqi Analysis | Who is the new deputy speaker of parliament Muhsin al-Mandalawi? iraqianalysis.substack.com/p/mandalawi

MOH is riddled with corruption & hospitals are unable to deliver even the most basic services to Iraqis, but let's light up monuments and make cute videos that will make donors feel warm and fuzzy on the inside. #RealityCheck #UN

A little stroll through old #Baghdad highlights heritage and potential, but mostly neglect.

Lack of a holistic vision, budget for renovation and maintenance as basic as trash collection, restrictive opening hours for public all contribute to steady demise.

Five stops along the Tigris river's 1,500-kilometre course through Iraq to document the ecological disaster forcing people to change their lifestyle.
In Mesopotamia, cradle of civilisation, human activity + climate change threaten the Tigris today

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'Is it stupid or is it evil? Sometimes it's hard to tell.'

What happens when the crypto industry tries to save the planet—& the Amazon Rainforest—by 'revolutionizing' carbon markets?

ICYMI: Fabio Teixeira & I spent months on this investigation:

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Ecological disaster unfolding. I've been worrying about these old subsea pipelines since 2009 when I first learned they were badly corroded. 13 years later...

Important reporting

'Irrigation water flows thru open-air canals, resulting in high rates of evaporation [...] & farmers use wasteful flood techniques instead of more precise drip irrigation.' Important by Simona Foltyn on how outdated techniques compound #Iraq 's drought theguardian.com/global-develop…

Heartbreaking stories of how Iraq's water crisis affects a family. 13 people with barely one salary to feed them. Cattle sold for as little as $20 - once they fetched 40x that. Life for farmers growing completely untenable. theguardian.com/global-develop… by Simona Foltyn.

‘The green land is a barren desert’: water scarcity hits Iraq’s Fertile Crescent - “The people in charge aren’t looking at the country’s future. All they care about is how much they are benefiting from the positions they are holding,” theguardian.com/global-develop… by Simona Foltyn