Efforts to end child marriage in Iraq are facing a serious threat, with the Iraqi Council of Representatives’ approval of amendments to Iraq’s Personal Status Law raising grave concerns that it risks ...

Iraq’s top court suspends new legislation that activists say undermines women’s rights Al-Qaisi held high-ranking ... in the port city of Basra as well as the central city of Najaf. He is accused of ...

A bus carrying Iraqi Shiite pilgrims collided with a car, killing at least seven people and injuring more than 40 on Friday in the country's south, ...

Razaw Salihy, Amnesty International's researcher for Iraq, condemned the changes, stating that urgent reforms should focus on protecting women and ... Basra, and Najaf. Protesters in Baghdad's ...

“Seven people — four men, two women and a girl — were killed ... Millions of Shiite pilgrims from Iraq and around the world travel to Najaf and its twin holy city of Karbala throughout ...

The civil crisis management cell in Iraq, led by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, held an extraordinary session to take quick steps to control the disease. "Last week, we announced that there 12 cases ...

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

A Swedish court on Tuesday sentenced a 52-year-old woman to 12 years in prison on genocide charges, in the country's first ...

Women’s rights advocates argue that the changes undermine previous reforms that created a unified family law and established safeguards for women. Proponents of the amendments, which were ...

A court in Stockholm on Tuesday convicted a Swedish woman of genocide, crimes against humanity and gross war crimes committed in Syria in 2015 against women and children of the Yazidi religious ...