‘A day in Iraq’ was a 2013 conference in London organised by Tadhamun” تضامن (Iraqi Women Solidarity). There were testimonies by Iraqi women, researchers, writers, artists and activists who shed light on the results of a decade of so-called Western democratization. The aim of the Conference was to maintain solidarity with Iraqi people, particularly women, and to pursue justice for Iraq in the World Courts through the implementation of international law.

Ten years on the invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, Iraqis are still suffering the destruction of their state, infrastructure, and society. Although the direct US/UK occupation has ended, the occupiers have left behind corrupt and brutal security forces, a government based on ethnic divisions, a broken legal system and a divisive political process. Iraq remains “in a state of low-level war”. Meanwhile, its massive oil wealth is being squandered.