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 ...
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After Iraq legalizes child marriage, Baghdad bridal market booms as young girls sold to older men
Baghdad’s bridal industry has seen a massive boom since Iraq legalized child marriage, and human rights organizations have warned that young girls are being auctioned off in black market sales to ...
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Feminists urge continuing fight of slain Iraqi-Canadian, Yanar Mohammed
OTTAWA — Gender-equality activists say a Toronto woman who was killed this month after decades pushing for women's rights in ...
(Beirut) – Iraq’s new Ja’afari Personal Status Code, passed by parliament on August 27, discriminates against women by favoring men in matters of marriage, divorce, inheritance, and children’s ...
(Beirut) – The United States transferred 5,700 detainees held for alleged ISIS affiliation from Northeast Syria to Iraq, where they are at risk of enforced disappearance, unfair trials, torture, ...
The crew members who died in the crash of a refueling tanker in Iraq had been part of the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran, bringing the death toll of American service members in the conflict to at least ...
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