On Feb. 13, 2020, Iraqi streets were awash with pink and purple. In response to influential Islamist cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's allegations of "promiscuity" by protesters in popular country-wide ...

My second trip to Iraq since the liberation of Baghdad grabbed some headlines because of a rocket attack on our hotel. But a visit to a new women's center in the city of Hillah said more about Iraq's ...

Ministry spokesperson Hassan Khuwam told Rudaw that the Directorate of Yazidi Survivors' Affairs, which falls under the ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s top court suspended implementation Tuesday of three controversial bills passed last month by the country’s parliament, including a measure that activists said undermines women’s ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. In the five years since the U.S. invasion of Iraq, women have faced ...

Survey finds 41% of women journalists have been victims of some form of harassment. This statement was originally published on gc4hr.org on 2 November 2023. For more than a year, B.A., an Iraqi ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Iraqi government has begun legal procedures to allocate land in Nineveh province free of charge ...

NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - In one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest cities, a bank has opened a branch only for women, hoping to tap a potentially large market and meet pent-up demand from Muslim women for ...

With U.S. forces scheduled to begin withdrawal from Iraq this summer, Iraq must now take the lead in rebuilding itself. Iraqi scientists and engineers will hold the key to the future, and Iraqi women ...

The United Nations announced that Iraq has entered the category of high human development countries for the first time, ...

In Iraq, women have long fought to grab a significant share of seats in the country's parliament. With elections scheduled for early March, many female lawmakers in Iraq say they are still struggling ...