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Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53898#.VNsFSyzQrzE Author(s)   Ferdinand Hennerbichler 1 , Bruce P. Montgomery 2   Affiliation(s) 1 The Presidency, Kurdology Center, University of Sulaimani, Kurdistan Region, Iraq . 2 Director Archives & Special Collections, University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado, USA . ABSTRACT More than twenty years after Kurdish forces captured mass quantities of Iraqi secret police files chronicling the Anfal genocide and other events in their March 1991 uprising, a digital copy of these documents has been repatriated to Iraqi Kurdistan. Following the military transport of the documents to the U.S. and their scanning by the Defense Intelligence Agency, both a copy of these digital documents and the original files were acquired by the Archives at the University of Colorado-Boulder (CU-Boulder) in 1997. The files were thereafter made available to researc...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52769#.VKNXmcnQrzE Author(s)   Jaafar H. Khidir , Sarhang H. Salih Affiliation(s) Faculty of Law and Political Science, Salahaddin University, Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq . ABSTRACT This study, which deals with Human Rights situation in Iraq and Kurdistan Region during the last three decades, aims to discuss and analyze certain Human Rights issues, including civil, political and cultural rights as stipulated in the current Iraqi Constitution and reflected under the present political circumstances, making specific short references to Human Rights Education. As a descriptive analytical study, clear integrated legal and politi...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52327#.VJDbxMnQrzE Author(s)   Yassin Osman 1 , Nadhir Al-Ansari 2 , Mawada Abdellatif 3 , Sadeq B. Aljawad 4 , Sven Knutsson 2 Affiliation(s) 1 University of Bolton, Bolton, UK, . 2 Lulea University of Technology, Lulea, Sweden . 3 Liverpool JM University, Liverpool, UK . 4 Water Resources, The Prime Minister Office, Baghdad, Iraq . ABSTRACT The Middle East (ME) is characterized by its water shortage problem. This region with its arid climate is expected to be the most vulnerable in the world to the potential impacts of climate change. Iraq (located in ME) is seriously experiencing water shortage problem. To overcome this p...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50909#.VFB8oVfHRK0 Author(s) Varoujan K. Sissakian 1 , Mawahib F. Abdul Jab’bar 2 , Nadhir Al-Ansari 3 , Sven Knutsson 3 Affiliation(s) 1 Consultant Geologist, Erbil, Iraq . 2 Iraq Geological Survey, Erbil, Iraq . 3 Lulea University of Technology, Lulea, Sweden . ABSTRACT Tigris and Euphrates are the main rivers in Iraq. The former has 5 main tributaries while the latter has no tributaries within Iraq. All these rivers exhibit meandering and/or shifting of their courses due to many reasons; such as mass movements and alluvial fan's development. The meandering and shifting of river courses due to mass movements is dealt with...

Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50908#.VFB8nlfHRK0 Author(s)   Varoujan K. Sissakian 1 , Ahmad T. Shihab 2 , Nadhir Al-Ansari 3 , Sven Knutsson 3 Affiliation(s) 1 Consultant Geologist, Erbil, Iraq . 2 Iraq Geological Survey, Baghdad, Iraq . 3 Lulea University of Technology, Lulea, Sweden . ABSTRACT Al-Batin alluvial fan is one of the largest alluvial fans in Iraq, especially in the Iraqi Southern Desert. Its eastern and southern limits form parts of the Iraqi-Kuwait international borders. The fan is deposited by Wadi Al-Batin, the last apex being on the southern limits of the main wide depression formed by the active Abu Jir-Euphrates Fault Zone. The main ...