http://uk.oneworld.net/article/country/368/ en_GB_uk Iraq http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/163895/1/ Iraq remains the top country of origin of asylum applicants (13,200 claims) in industrialised countries for the fourth consecutive year, according to the UN refugee agency. Afghans (12,000) and Somalis (11,000) are the next largest groups as security conditions continue to deteriorate in large parts of their home countries. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/163815/1/ There will be a celebration at 5.30pm at Grosvenor Square, opposite the US Embassy, to celebrate the Iraqi government's the release of 36 people seized from a camp for Iranian dissidents in Iraq. In London, hunger-strikers ended their 72-day sympathy fast to mark the group's return to Camp Ashraf. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/163775/1/ A documentary about “the only top official in the UN known by his first name” sounds dull. But don’t be put off - Sergio is engrossing. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/163689/1/ Refugees from Iraq’s minorities face insecurity and risk losing their religious and cultural identity as they try to seek refuge in neighbouring countries and Western Europe, says a new report. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85604 British Foreign Secretary David Miliband should scrap proposals for UK private military companies to police themselves or risk further killings in Iraq and Afghanistan, said a prominent development charity, following reports that a security contractor working for a British private military company shot dead two colleagues in Baghdad. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/163457/1/ A string of targeted bombings against minority communities in Iraq has been condemned as "a deliberate attempt to grab control over contested territory in northern Iraq by pushing out the minorities who live there." http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85111 A 17-year-old Iraqi pianist is putting on a recital at the Wigmore Hall in London to raise awareness about her campaign to set up the first National Youth Orchestra of Iraq. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/162507/1/ Iraqis continued to be the largest nationality seeking asylum in the industrialised world last year, even though the number fell 10 per cent, says the UN refugee agency. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/162445/1/ Iraq’s Justice Minister is urged to stop the execution of 128 death row prisoners, amid reports that the authorities are planning to start executing them in batches of up to 20 starting this week. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85025 Mothers, wives, widows and daughters of Iraq remain caught in the grip of a silent emergency, a new survey shows. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/84685 Massive forced civilian displacements, violence, and unmet medical needs in Congo, Somalia, Iraq, Sudan, and Pakistan, along with neglected medical emergencies in Myanmar and Zimbabwe, are some of the worst humanitarian and medical emergencies in the world, according to an international medical humanitarian organisation. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/84525 Yuri Kozyrev is the winner of the Frontline Club Award for his exceptional coverage of the Iraq war - a comprehensive, unique, honest portrait of the people that it has involved. More Kozyrev photos http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/161408/1/ The money spent by the US trying to secure oil supplies by invading Iraq would have been better invested in developing renewable fuels, Britain’s former chief government scientist told a meeting in London on Monday. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/161069/1/ Thirteen Iraqi Kurds said today they were continuing a hunger strike that began last Saturday as a protest against their detention and threatened deportation from Britain. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/160859/1/ Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris says that although the Abu Ghraib prison photographs were “the most widely seen photographs in history”, no-one had really talked to those responsible for the abuses captured on camera. His film Standard Operating Procedure puts that right.