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 ...

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, ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Feb 12 2025 (IPS) - Efforts to end child marriage in Iraq are facing a serious threat, with the Iraqi Council of Representatives’ approval of amendments to Iraq’s Personal Status Law ...

The grim reality of gender-based atrocities pervades every corner of our world, evincing in abhorrent forms such as sexual violence, dowry deaths, domestic violence, female foeticide and infanticide, ...

Emad Kaky was found to have attempted to arrange for a girl to be circumcised and forced into marriage in Iraq after trial last year ... inflict grotesque physical and mental suffering upon a child.

Jihadist group Islamic State killed about 5,000 Yazidis and enslaved thousands more A Swedish woman has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for committing genocide and war crimes against the Yazidi ...

Cati Blauvelt was discovered in an abandoned South Carolina farmhouse in 2016 — a broken knife blade inside her body. Almost ...

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 ...

Cati Blauvelt was discovered in an abandoned South Carolina farmhouse in 2016 — a broken knife blade inside her body. Almost immediately, her friends had one suspect in mind: John Blauvelt, her ...