Humanitarian Evidence and Discourse Summary July 2024
Monthly Humanitarian Evidence and Discourse Summaries aim to signpost FCDO and other UK government departments to the latest relevant evidence and discourse on humanitarian action.
Alannah Travers
I'm a British-German journalist focused on Iraq, interested in politics, personal stories and the human impact of a heating climate.
Special Dinner Event Alannah Travers, July 9, 2024
Alannah Travers: Award-winning Human Rights Journalist
The 2024 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards
"At a time when the Kurdish government, in northern Iraq, claimed to be eliminating gas flaring — the climate-damaging practice that was also exposing nearby Syrian refugee camps to toxic chemicals — this high-achieving investigation revealed that flaring was continuing unabated... One judge said the stories gave them chills."
Special Dinner Event: Alannah Travers | Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan
Award-winning Human Rights Journalist and Shikoku Pilgrim
6:00pm to 8:30pm Tuesday, July 9, 2024
The speaker will discuss her humanitarian and reporting work in Iraq and Kurdistan and her recent pilgrimage to Shikoku. She will also take questions during this dinner event.
Scale and cycle of Iraq’s arbitrary executions may be a crime against humanity: Special Rapporteurs
"The Government of Iraq’s systematic executions of prisoners sentenced to death based on torture-tainted confessions, and pursuant to an ambiguous counterterrorism law, amount to arbitrary deprivation of life under international law and may amount to a crime against humanity, human rights experts said today."
More Than Ink on Paper Podcast with Clara Sandoval and Shireen Khudeeda
In this powerful episode of the YSL podcast, published on the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, C4JR's Alannah Travers sits down with Professor Clara Sandoval, a distinguished expert in transitional justice and human rights, and Shireen Khudeeda, a courageous Yazidi survivor and activist.
Iraq after UNITAD: Suggestions for Meaningful Justice
A summary document outlining key suggestions and recommended actions based on C4JR’s online event on May 23, 2024, which discussed the end of the mandate for the UN Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Daesh/ISIS (UNITAD) in Iraq.
Repairing the Irreparable: Remedies, Rehabilitation and Reparations for Survivors, Families and Communities Impacted by Sexual Torture in Armed Conflict - keynote address by Dr. Alice Jill Edwards
Delivered at the Coalition for Just Reparations (C4JR) launch event for our new report - "Using Human Rights Indicators to Monitor Implementation of the Right to Rehabilitation for ISIL Survivors"
The UN’s Humanitarian Transition from Emergency Assistance to Development Funding in Iraq
Travers, A. (2024). The UN’s Humanitarian Transition from Emergency Assistance to Development Funding in Iraq: The Politics of Delivering Aid in a Country of Protracted Post-Conflict Displacement (PeaceRep Research Paper). Middle East Centre, London School of Economics.
The UN’s Humanitarian Transition from Emergency Assistance to Development Funding in Iraq: The Politics of Delivering Aid in a Country of Protracted Post-Conflict Displacement
Travers, Alannah (2024) The UN’s humanitarian transition from emergency assistance to development funding in Iraq: the politics of delivering aid in a country of protracted post-conflict displacement. LSE Middle East Centre Paper Series (88). LSE Middle East Centre, London, UK.
C4JR online event on the ending of UNITAD’s mandate, with Yazda, IBAHRI, HRW & Amnesty International
On May 23, 2024, the EU Day Against Impunity for Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes, C4JR held an online discussion on the wind-down of UNITAD in Iraq, featuring remarks from human rights lawyers, activists, and experts, and providing recommendations following Iraq’s request to the UN Security Council to not renew UNITAD's mandate.
C4JR online event on the ending of UNITAD’s mandate
What do survivors want to happen with the evidence that UNITAD Iraq has collected on ISIL crimes in Iraq? What is the UNITAD-led completion roadmap promising? What is the current situation in Iraq, who can access UNITAD-collected evidence, and how?
C4JR Submission for the Report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture
C4JR is proud to share our following submission to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Dr. Alice Jill Edwards, for her forthcoming thematic report about crimes of sexual torture and other ill-treatment committed during armed conflict, including ensuring remedies and rehabilitation of victims and survivors.
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More Than Ink on Paper Podcast with Sherizaan Minwalla: English Transcript
In this episode, C4JR's Alannah Travers spoke with Sherizaan Minwalla about her efforts to advocate for ethical engagement and the protection of survivors' rights in media reporting and legal processes, including her own groundbreaking research.
Yazidis in Iraq facing an uncertain future
“This situation has gone on for far too long and the camps should close but there's nowhere for many people to go”, Alannah Travers told The Lancet.
Fetisov Journalism Awards
Choking Kurdistan: How oil and gas burning is suffocating minorities in northern Iraq 🌟
Introducing the 2021 Yazidi [Female] Survivors Law (YSL)
Follow C4JR to stay up-to-date with all YSL information and connect with other NGOs supporting survivors to access reparations!
UNCA Awards Ceremony, New York
I am the Silver winner of the Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Prize, named after the Boston Globe Media UN bureau chief who died in Baghdad in 2003, and was glad to receive my prize from António Guterres in December 2023 in New York.
Sharon Stone, Alessandro Benetton, Sofia Carson Honored At UN Correspondents Association (UNCA) Awards
Attendees included Agnese Benetton, Luce Benetton, Francesca Bodini, Dr. Joyce F. Brown, Chiara Clemente, Marco Congiu, Carmelia Entekhabi, Evelyn Leopold, H.E. Miguel Angel Moratinos, Ricardo Ortega, Priscilla Rattazzi, Shalini Singh, Carl Skau, Alannah Travers, Carlo Tunioli, Nadima Umar and many more...
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