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Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights, or IOHR, is an independent Iraqi non-governmental organization based in Baghdad, capital of Iraq. It is a non-profit organization founded by a group of journalists and human rights defenders at the beginning of 2014.

It monitors and documents human rights violations in Iraq, trains volunteers in the field of human rights defense and combats misinformation, and trains journalists and civil society activists on national and international mechanisms to defend human rights.

The observatory began its activity at the beginning of 2014. During the battles of liberation of Mosul city from ISIS (2014-2017), it published dozens of reports on violations and waves of displacement in the cities of Anbar, Salah al-Din and Nineveh Many international organizations and Arab and international media rely on the data and reports of the observatory, including United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), US State Department, Reuters, CNN, Washington Times, BBC, Al Monitor, Al-Arabiya, and Al-Jazeera. The director of the observatory also has conducted dozens of Television interviews on human rights issues since 2014.

In 2021, US State Department relied on the observatory’s data in its report on human rights, and its reports were adopted by Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights and Human Rights Committee of the Iraqi parliament. The observatory depends on voluntary effort, but at the same time it has  Partnerships with a number of international institutions to implement advocacy programs, protect journalists, and assist activists at risk

Foundation and working
The observatory was established by a group of journalists and human rights activists in Iraq at the beginning of 2014, but it could not obtain the official registration license to work as a non-governmental organization in Iraq until March 2017 due to financial challenges it faced, as well as bureaucratic procedures in the institutions of Iraqi state.

It documented dozens of violations and waves of displacement in areas of clashes between Iraqi forces and Islamic State organization known as ISIS. It also covered the water salinity crisis in Basra in 2018, the poisoning of thousands of citizens and the violations during the demonstrations took place in Iraq in 2015, 2016,  2018 and 2019[8], which were later known as “October Revolution”, and drought crises and climate changes in Iraq. In June 2022 the observatory published a shocking report on harassment in public institutions in Iraq, including universities, hospitals, press and media institutions, and even schools