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With an estimated population of 22,675,617 women, Iraq is a male dominated society. [39] On International Women's Day, 8 March 2011, a coalition of 17 Iraqi women's rights groups formed the National Network to Combat Violence Against Women in Iraq. [40] Yanar Mohammed at the Die Linke conference in Berlin in 2013
Dozens of Iraqi protesters gathered Sunday to decry the so-called “honor killing” of a 22-year-old YouTube star who was allegedly strangled by her father, adding fuel to calls for legal ...
Tiba al-Ali was born in Iraq in 2000 and moved to Turkey in 2017. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She and her fiancé frequently made videos on YouTube about life in Istanbul . [ 3 ] She visited her family in the central Iraqi city of Al Diwaniyah , Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate , in 2023, where on 31 January she was strangled at night while sleeping. [ 3 ]
A United Nations report issued on 2 October 2014, based on 500 interviews with witnesses, said that IS took 450–500 women and girls to Iraq's Nineveh region in August, where "150 unmarried girls and women, predominantly from the Yazidi and Christian communities, were reportedly transported to Syria, either to be given to ISIL fighters as a ...
However, the statement could not be authenticated. Hassan's whereabouts were unknown in the video. On 15 November, US Marines in Fallujah uncovered the body of an unidentified blonde- or grey-haired woman with her legs and arms cut off and throat slit. The body could not be immediately identified, but was thought unlikely to be Hassan, who had ...
A Munich court on Tuesday sentenced a German woman who was a member of the Islamic State group to 14 years in prison for allowing a 5-year-old Yazidi girl she and her husband kept as a slave in ...
The Islamic State (IS) has employed sexual violence against women and men in a terroristic [1] manner. Sexual violence, as defined by The World Health Organization includes “any sexual act, attempt to obtain a sexual act, unwanted sexual comments or advances, or acts to traffic, or otherwise directed, against a person’s sexuality using coercion, by any person regardless of their ...
Yanar highlights the contrast between the treatment of her grandmothers half a century ago and the regressing daily experience of women in Iraq nowadays. [1] As a result of her work on women's rights that questions the extreme interpretations of Islam, Yanar Mohammed has been subjected to death threats and was forced to restrict her movement.