Iran has stepped up pressure on Baghdad and Erbil to disarm and relocate Iranian Kurdish opposition parties in the Kurdistan Region amidst ongoing disputes between Erbil and Baghdad over budget and oil revenues.
The crisis in western Iran is intensifying. As Sanandaj and other cities burn, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) last weekend issued a curious statement threatening a military incursion into Kurdish northern Iraq. The statement read: "In case
BEHIND THE LINES: Why is Iran choosing to target small, exiled Iranian Kurdish opposition organizations in northern Iraq, at a time when unrest within Iran itself is ongoing?
The health community must act on air pollution as an issue of health justice
December 22, 2020
On Wednesday 16 December 2020, air pollution was recorded as a cause of death for the first time, following a second inquest into the death of 9-year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah in 2013. Ella’s death certificate now reads “acute respiratory failure, asthma, and air pollution exposure.” Expert analysis showed Ella’s multiple admissions to hospital with severe asthma and her fatal exacerbation correlated with spikes in air pollution near her Lewisham home, and that she was exposed to levels “constantly exceeding” EU limits in the three years prior to her death. Ella’s mother, Rosamund, has been campaigning for the last 7 years for Justice for Ella. As Rosamund powerfully reflected after the ruling, “this was about my daughter…but also it’s about other children…there are still illegal levels of air pollution now.”