Iraq

POMED’s work on Iraq has covered topics such as human rights, judicial reform, political representation, domestic politics, and U.S. assistance.

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Yemen

Jun 2023

Statement

Joint Statement – MENA States Must End Torture and Hold Perpetrators Accountable

Sep 2021

Report

Report – Back to Business as Usual: President Biden’s First Foreign Affairs Budget for the Middle East and North Africa

Seth Binder

Aug 2021

Statement

Joint Statement: Enforced Disappearances in MENA

Jun 2021

CSP ,
Expert Q&A

Expert Q&A – Beyond Rhetoric: How Should the Biden Administration Support Human Rights and Democracy in the Middle East and North Africa?

Hanan Abdulhadi, Amy Hawthorne

Jun 2020

Report

President Trump's FY21 Budget: Examining U.S. Assistance to the Middle East and North Africa in the Shadow of COVID-19

Andrew Miller, Seth Binder, Louisa Keeler

POMED in the News

“Iraq, under punishing international sanctions and totalitarian rule for another decade, would have become a failed state, with parts of the south and Iraqi Kurdistan falling outside Saddam’s control.”

Washington Post

, 09/09/2021

Amy Hawthorne

“[Trump administration officials] want to raise the cost to the Iraqi government of working with Iranian-aligned actors and force it to choose between the United States and Iran… such an approach is likely to backfire.”

New York Times

, 07/18/2019

Andrew Miller

“From a purely informational perspective, closing [the consulate in Iraq] would be detrimental to U.S. interests and maintaining contact with people in the community there.”