After months of legal and political wrangling, an amendment to Iraq's Personal Status Law that entered into force on February ...

After months of legal and political wrangling, an amendment to Iraq's Personal Status Law that entered into force on February 17, 2025, violates ...

UNICEF called on Friday for greater global efforts to end child marriages and provide quality education for all girls, emphasizing the importance of a multisectoral approach to target the root cause ...

On International Women’s Day, March 8, a human rights researcher warned about the concerning state of women’s rights in Iraq, ...

In this episode of Unfinished Stories, Hevidar Ahmed travels around Iraq to explore the impact ... Ahmed speaks with women who married young and their marriages subsequently failed.

The grim reality of gender-based atrocities pervades every corner of our world, evincing in abhorrent forms such as sexual ...

A 35-year-old Iraq War veteran was again sentenced to 11 years in prison Friday for fatally stabbing his girlfriend in Anaheim, after an appellate court ruling that required a re-sentencing hearing ...

Helbrans became the group’s leader after his father died in 2017, and he drove the sect to embrace more extreme practices, especially around child marriage ... in Iraq recently detained about ...

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