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BBC investigation exposes Shia clerics in Baghdad advising men on how to abuse girls
I’m walking through the security cordon that leads into Kadhimiyah, one of Shia Islam’s holiest sites. I’m in a queue, along with dozens of pilgrims who have come from all over the world to pay their respects to (...)
Gender-based violence has escalated in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003 until the surge of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in the country, killing at least 14,000 women in 12 years, the Ceasefire Center for Civilian Rights and Minority Rights Group International revealed in a (...)
On June 10, the occupation of the city of Mosul started a new chapter of women’s suffering in Iraq. Daesh (ISIS) reawakened the ancient tribal habits of claiming women as spoils of war. While most of the detained thousands of women were from religious minorities such as Yezidies, there were also (...)
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As they swept through large parts of northern Iraq, fighters with the armed group calling itself “Islamic State” (IS) systematically targeted members of non-Arab and non-Sunni Muslim communities, as well as Sunni Muslims who oppose them. But even within the context of its persecution of (...)
Yanar Mohammed is the President of the Organization for Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) which she co-founded in 2003. It campaigns against honor violence and other forms of discrimination against women and girls. Her family left Iraq in 1993 and moved to Canada. Yanar Mohammed returned to Iraq (...)
The Islamic State of Iraq and Levantine (ISIS) atrocities, since the occupation of Mosul city, have shocked the Iraqi and the International community altogether. Their criminal conduct is abysmal against Iraqi women in general, and specifically against the Yazidi, Christian, Shiite Shebek and (...)
Everyone has a story and a history but in Iraq women’s lives are being reduced to a label, says Shaista Aziz.
The unfolding tragedy of Iraq continues to be told through a distorted, polarised western gaze, reducing the country and its 32 million population to labels: ‘Sunni’, ‘Shia’, ‘Islamist’, (...)
Four mannequins in Western dress in the Kadhimiya neighborhood. Text accompanying the display, put on by a mosque, had an uncompromising message: Men who look at women in such dress become voracious monsters; women who wear it burn through eternity.
BAGHDAD — Vendors around the Kadhimiya mosque (...)
MADRID, 28 November 2010 (IRIN) - The improved political representation of women in Iraq is in sharp contrast to their broader disempowerment, as highlighted by the persistence of domestic violence and early marriage, according to a new report by the UN Inter-Agency Information and Analysis (...)
INTERVIEW WITH HANAA’ EDWARD, SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE IRAQI ALAMAL ASSOCIATION & JUDGE SALEM RAWDAN AL-MOUSSAWI
In most Muslim countries, family or personal status legislation related to marriage, divorce, child custody and inheritance is based on Islamic Shari’a Law. This legislation (...)
Nadje Al-Ali: “Now Iraqis tell me, ’We have 90 Saddam Husseins’ ... I think people need to get a reality check.”
In the run-up to the March 20, 2003 invasion of Iraq, then President George W. Bush, Laura Bush, and Condoleeza Rice took to the airwaves to assure the world that their main goal was (...)
Politicians hoped the Iraq war would see the advance of women’s rights. Instead, Iraqi women face violence, sexual abuse and segregation.
On International Women’s Day in 2004, nearly a year after the invasion of Iraq, George Bush, the US President, addressed 250 women from around the world who (...)
BAGHDAD, Dec. 11 (IPS) — Women face increased risk of abduction by militias and criminal gangs as lawlessness takes over the country. Nobody is safe. Taysseer Al-Mashadani, the Sunni woman minister from the al-Tawafuq political party was abducted by members of the Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s (...)
BAGHDAD, Dec. 7 (IPS) - Hundreds of thousands of widows are becoming the silent tragedy of a country sliding deeper into chaos by the day.
Widows are the flip side of violence that has meant more than a million men dead, detained or disabled, Iraqi NGOs estimate. These men’s wives or mothers (...)
“Thousands of Iraqi women are being taken advantage of by unscrupulous sex worker traffickers seeking to exploit young girls’ desperate socio-economic situation for profit, United Nations agencies have reported.” (AND Network).
Mariam, 16, relives the day her father in Baghdad sold her off as a (...)
Fight for the rights of Iraqi women
Souheila al-Jadda
From Tikkun Magazine
“The new Constitution threatens to restore”Islamic Law“and with it a dismantling of the rights of Iraqi women.”
The future of Iraq now lies in the hands of the Iraqi National Assembly after the writing committee of the (...)
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