Baghdad, Iraq: Iraq is the deadliest country in the world for aid workers, specialists say. Treated as Western collaborators they face death on a daily basis in the course of meeting the needs of an increasingly desperate population.   Read article

Geneva, Switzerland: On Sunday, 17 December a number of Iraqi Red Crescent Society staff and volunteers and other persons were abducted from one of the Society's offices in Baghdad. As of today, some have been released, but many are still being held.  Read article

Baghdad, Iraq: Displaced Iraqis plead to their government and international organizations to find ways to protect volunteers and aid workers from the on-going sectarian conflict amongst Islamic groups.  Read article

Kadhimiya, Iraq: Local Iraqi volunteers line up the Tigris river bank to carry out a gruesome task -- fishing out bodies. The increasing number of bodies floating downstream, they pulled out 400 in the last two months, has been attributed to the escalating sectarian conflict between Islamic sects Shi'ite and Sunni.  Read article

Anbar, Iraq: Hosts of college students from the west Anbar are spending their summer holidays doing volunteer work in hospitals, clinics and camps for people displaced by conflict amongs religious groups.  Read article