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

Women in Iraq are up in arms over a new law that gives husbands the right to force their wives to have sex with them whenever they want. Two dozen women protested the new law, which also allows girls ...

Prof Fatima Waziri-Azi, the Director-General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has said that Nigerian women working in Iraq are exploited in diverse ways.

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 ...

Iraq must do more to protect women after a harassment incident in Basra sparked nationwide outrage and highlighted gender-based violence, activists have told The National. A video went viral showing ...

The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

Shimaa Qasim said in a live Instagram video on Sunday that she received texts vowing “you’re next” in a campaign suspected of targeting "Westernized" women. The beauty queen received the terrifying ...