She established a network of safe houses for abused women and was an outspoken critic of her country’s repressive ...
A prominent Iraqi women’s rights activist was gunned down outside her Baghdad home by two men on motorcycles on March 2, 2026 ...
Iraqi-Canadian activist and journalist Yanar Mohammed fought for decades to save Iraqi women and girls from violence. After ...
Amnesty International decries Mohammed’s killing as ‘calculated assault to stifle human rights defenders’ in Iraq.
IFEX joins rights groups calling for an independent investigation into the killing of Iraqi women's rights defender Yanar Mohammed and urgent protection measures for women human rights defenders ...
Mohammed, who co-founded and directed the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq, was rushed to hospital where she perished ...
Gunmen shot dead prominent Iraqi feminist Yanar Mohammed outside her home in Baghdad on Monday, her organisation announced.
IRBIL, Iraq — Shaimaa Saadoun is haunted by her memory of being forced into an abusive marriage to a 39-year-old man just after she turned 13. Her impoverished family near the southern Iraqi city of ...
Though security is improving in Iraq, conditions for women have worsened according to two new studies. Many Iraqi women, according to reports, are suffering from mental illness, lack of necessities, ...
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