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

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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 ...

ISIS, the militant group wreaking havoc across Iraq and Syria, has ordered all women and girls in and around Iraq's northern city of Mosul to undergo female genital mutilation, according to a United ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's state minister for women's affairs has quit to protest a lack of resources for a daunting task — improving the lives of “a full army of widows” and other women left poor or ...

Campaigners report that dozens of cases in Iraqi Kurdistan indicate that FGM persists, driven by secrecy, tradition, and some religious interpretations ...

In a new documentary, 12 Iraqi women gather in Damascus, Syria, with a goal: They intend to learn photography, decide what stories to tell, then return to Iraq and tell those stories with their ...

of her group’s program in Iraq: “Just surviving there is an accomplishment in itself.” Ms. Salbi is the founder and chief executive of Women for Women International, in Washington, a group that offers ...

The economics of shipping additional volumes of heavy crude from Iraq to compensate for a potential loss of Venezuela’s supply are just not there at present, Shafaq News reported on Friday, quoting ...

MADRID, Spain, December 6 (UNHCR) - Taiseer* thought things could only get better in her native Iraq after a United States-led invasion force toppled President Saddam Hussein in March 2003. She never ...

Two weeks into Mariam's forced marriage to her cousin according to Iraqi tribal custom, she desperately doused herself in fuel, flicked on a lighter and attempted suicide by self-immolation. The ...

(Beirut) – Iraq’s new Ja’afari Personal Status Code, passed by parliament on August 27, discriminates against women by favoring men in matters of marriage, divorce, inheritance, and children’s ...