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 ...

(Beirut) – After months of legal and political wrangling, an amendment to Iraq’s Personal Status Law that entered into force on February 17, 2025, violates women’s and girls’ rights to ...

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 ...

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 ...

DUBAI, March 9: In a shocking and audacious scheme that has stunned Iraq, a 35-year-old man managed to marry eight women from different regions, only to divorce them shortly afterward, stripping them ...

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 ...

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 ...