July 12, 2013 - The International Solidarity Committee of the World Social Forum is supporting the preparation of the first Iraqi Social Forum, scheduled to take place in Baghdad on 26-28 September 2013.
One of the key aims of the ISF (Iraqi Social Forum) is to build peace and justice and overcome all forms of violence in Iraq. The very fact that the ISF is still scheduled to take place in the face of the current wave of bombings is in itself not only a challenge, but a way of defying this violence and proving that peace and security in another Iraq are possible.
As International Solidarity Committee members, we strongly condemn all the current acts of violence, just as we have always condemned imperial wars imposed on civilians, who always pay the highest price. We particularly condemn attacks on human rights defenders and journalists, and those heinous acts that in Iraq have recently targeted children and youth practicing sport and other peaceful activities.
Name |
Organization |
Country |
Ismaeel Dawood |
Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative | international - دولية |
Martina Pignatti Morano | Un ponte per... | Italy - إيطاليا |
Judith Hitchman and Sergio
Cordeiro |
Support to "Iraqi Social
Forum translators' team" |
international - دولية |
Sabiha Ben Ammar |
Confédération Générale
Tunisienne du Travail (CGTT) |
Tunisia - تونس |
Feroz Mehdi |
Alternatives International |
international - دولية |
Mireille Fanon-Mendes | Frantz Fanon Foundation |
France - فرنسا |
Elena Laurenti and Nicola Visconti | A.D. Sport Against Violence | Italy - إيطاليا |
Pierre George | Support to "Extended Iraqi
Social Forum team" |
France - فرنسا |
Mboirick Mohamed | Gathering of Young Mauritania for Development | Mauritania - موريتانيا |
Olfa Mohamed |
Tunisian League of Women
Voters |
Tunisia - تونس |
Ahmad Jaradat |
Alternative Information
Center |
Palestine/Israel - فلسطين |
Gershom Kabaso |
Zambia Social Forum |
Zambia - زامبيا |
Terry Kay Rockefeller |
September 11 Families
for Peaceful Tomorrows |
USA - الولايات المتحدة
الامريكية |
Felipe Daza |
NOVACT |
Spain - إسبانيا |
Raffaella Bolini |
ARCI |
Italy - إيطاليا |
Hamouda Soubhi |
Alternatives Forum in Morocco (FMAS) | Morocco - المغرب |
Muhanna Al-Shamary |
Friendship and Peace
International Organization |
Denmark/Iraq -
الدنمارك/العراق |
Alessandra Mecozzi |
Italian Network for the World
Social Forum |
Italy - إيطاليا |