Official figures recorded 36,289 domestic violence cases in Iraq in 2025, marking a 150% year-on-year increase from 2024.

In June 2024, the International Rescue Committee (IRC), alongside the Women Empowerment Organization (WEO), hosted a pivotal five-day training program in Iraq for 20 members of the Women Peace Network ...

Ghandour’s path to filmmaking began more than a decade ago, not in film school, but on Iraqi television. At barely 20, she began presenting and eventually directing the popular documentary show “52 ...

An Iraqi team of table tennis Paralympic hopefuls has been practising in a local community centre with broken tables and patchy electricity — Hayder INDHAR Iraqi table tennis player Nur al-Huda Sarmad ...

Yezidi women, many of whom survived a genocidal campaign by the terror group ISIS, are breaking social barriers by leading environmental renewal efforts in northern ...

While the U.S. government talks of the critical role women must play in reconstructing Iraq, Hana Rashid can only watch as opportunities for herself and her daughter slip away. "My 19-year-old ...

At this year's Cairo Intl. Film Festival, Iraqi filmmaker Zahraa Ghandour marks a notable milestone with "Flana," a documentary centered on the lived realities of Iraqi women. After its world premiere ...