After months of legal and political wrangling, an amendment to Iraq's Personal Status Law that entered into force on February ...

Women walking in Kirkuk. Photo: Serkan Senturk, Shuttertock. The deterioration of women and girls’ status in Iraq has been a result of increasing social and political conservatism, which in turn is an ...

ALBAWABA - Captain Razin Muhammad Al-Doski has made history by becoming the first Iraqi woman to achieve the status of an airplane pilot. She accomplished this achievement by successfully ...

a human rights researcher warned about the concerning state of women’s rights in Iraq, especially following controversial amendments to the personal status law. In an interview with Rudaw’s ...

Amendments to Iraq's Personal Status Law that came into effect on February 17, 2025, fail to adequately protect women's right to equality before the law and leave them vulnerable to abuse and ...

This project examines the effectiveness of Iraq’s gender quota, which reserves 25% of all seats in the Council of Representatives for women, in enabling women’s substantive political representation ...

Ashwaq Haji Hamid, a young Iraqi Yazidi woman who was raped by an ISIS militant back in 2014, expressed her relief after hearing the judge's death verdict to her ISIS rapist in the case she ...

Video grab Dubai: In an audacious scheme that has shocked Iraq, a 35-year-old man tricked eight women from different regions into marrying him one after another, only to divorce them shortly after ...

Iraq’s top court suspended implementation Tuesday of three controversial bills passed last month by the country’s parliament, including a measure that activists said undermines women’s rights.