Global civil society activity in Iraq

Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East. With a population of over 46 million, it is the 31st-most populous country. It is a federal parliamentary republic that consists of 19 governorates. The country is bordered by Turkey to the north, Iran to the east, the Persian Gulf and Kuwait to the southeast, Saudi Arabia to the south, Jordan to the southwest, and Syria to the west. The capital and largest city is Baghdad. The Iraqi people are diverse; mostly Arabs, as well as Kurds, Turkmen, Assyrians, Armenians, Yazidis, Mandaeans, Persians and Shabakis with similarly diverse geography and wildlife. Most Iraqis are Muslims – minority faiths include Christianity, Yazidism, Mandaeism, Yarsanism and Zoroastrianism. The official languages of Iraq are Arabic and Kurdish; others also recognized in specific regions are Turkish (Turkmen), Suret (Assyrian), and Armenian.

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Meetings Statistics

From UIA's International Meetings Statistics Report

20 years

Iraq is ranked #209 over a 20 year period,
with 9 meetings since 2001.

2021

Iraq is ranked #142 in 2021, with 0 meetings.

Organizations based in Iraq

Arab Petroleum Training Institute - Baghdad
Union of Arab Chemists - Baghdad
Arab Company for Detergent Chemicals - Baghdad
Pan Arab Committee for Packing and Packaging - Baghdad
Pan Arab Committee for Standardization and Quality Control - Baghdad
Arab Association for Agricultural Press - Baghdad
Arab Association for Children Press - Baghdad
Iraqi Fund for External Development - Baghdad
Pan Arab Committee for Feed Industries - Baghdad
Pan Arab Committee for Soft Drinks, Juices and Mineral Waters - Baghdad
Pan Arab Committee for Dairy Products - Baghdad
Pan Arab Committee for Poultry - Baghdad
Pan Arab Committee for Tomato Products - Baghdad
Arab Association for Caricaturists - Baghdad
Pan Arab Journalists Institute - Baghdad
Pan Arab Committee for Oil Seeds and Vegetable Oils - Baghdad
Centre for Arab Gulf Studies, Basrah - Basrah
Pan Arab Committee for Grains - Baghdad
Arab Industrial Investment Company - Baghdad
Centre for Research on the Arab Gulf and Arabian Peninsula - Basrah
Arab Archivists Institute - Baghdad
Arabic Encyclopaedia Institution, Baghdad - Baghdad
Instituto Hispano-Arabe de Cultura - Baghdad
Union of Arab Historians - Baghdad

Past Events in Iraq

2023 Meeting – Council of Arab Ministers of Justice - Baghdad
2022 Arab Engineering Conference – Federation of Arab Engineers - Baghdad
2022 High Level Meeting – Budapest Process - Baghdad
2021 World Forum for Women in Science without Borders – Women in Science Without Borders - Duhok
2019 Basra International Oil and Gas Conference - Basrah
2018 Annual Session – Council of Catholic Patriarchs of the Orient - Baghdad
2018 International Iraq Energy Forum – Iraq Energy Institute - Baghdad
2018 Extreme Traveler International Congress (ETIC) – Extreme Traveler International Congress - Baghdad
2013 Annual Congress – Arab Association of Urology - Erbil
2013 Annual Council Meeting – Association of Arab Universities - Erbil
2013 Annual Session – Council of Catholic Patriarchs of the Orient - Mosul
2012 International Conference on Petroleum and Resources of Technology – Wessex Institute of Technology - Koysinjaq
2012 Annual Conference – International Emergency Management Society - Erbil
2012 Ordinary Summit Conference – League of Arab States - Baghdad
2010 Arab Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy – Arab Atomic Energy Agency - Baghdad

View More Past Events (120) in The International Congress Calendar

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