WLP: ISIS Targeting Women, International Action Needed Now
By Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP) for Rights, Development and Peace, August 7, 2014. The news coming from our partners on...
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One in Four Women in Central and Southern Iraq is Affected by Female Genital Mutilation, New Study Suggests!
Source: wadi-online A first independent study on female genital mutilation in central/southern Iraq finds that 25% of the women in these...
OWFI Statement: On the Occupation of Mosul and the Cities of Western Iraq
Statement published on June 23, 2014, by the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq. The Iraqi society is suffering unprecedented...
Ja’fari Law Takes the Iraqi Government’s Violation of Women’s Rights to a New Level
Marriage at age nine, legalising marital rape – this bill breaches UN conventions and is degrading for Iraqi men and...
Iraq’s Jaafari Law Would Violate Human Rights!
Muhannad Al-Ghazi / Al-monitor The Iraqi Justice Ministry announced on Oct. 27 that it had sent a copy of a...
Women’s Movement in Iraq Faces Setbacks!
Ali Mamouri – Al-Monitor When well-known feminist activist Mona Eltahawy put forth her theory that women are hated and detested in the Middle East, she faced...
Faiza Babakhan: Jaafari Personal Status Law Cannot be Passed Unless if the Minister of Justice Accepted the Marriage of his Daughters in the Age of Nine!
BAGHDAD – “Arenas of Liberation“ The legal researcher Faiza Babakhan criticized the government’s decision to vote on the draft of...
Why are so many Kurdish women setting themselves on fire?
The Economist by M.G and J.H.Y. | SULAYMANIYAH ON MARCH 8th, while the world celebrated International Women’s Day to recognise...
Don’t Legalize Marriage for 9-Year-Olds
by HRW :Draft Law Huge Step Back for Women, Girls (Baghdad) – Iraq’s Council of Ministers should withdraw a new...
Iraqi Justice Minister Presses Shiite Personal Status Law!
Source: Al-monitor With great persistence, Iraqi Justice Minister Hassan al-Shammari has kept pushing the controversial Jaafari personal status law to the forefront. He succeeded in passing...
Iraqi women protest against proposed Islamic law in Iraq!
8 March, 2014 Baghdad – Reuters About two dozen Iraqi women demonstrated on Saturday in Baghdad against a draft law...
Iraqi Women Among The Most Vulnerable To Sexual Harassment
Iraq is one of the worst countries in the world for women! Iraqi Civil Society Solidarity Initiative (ICSSI), March 2014...