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

Newsweek contacted Iraq's Ministry of Foreign Affairs for comment via email outside normal business hours. Opponents to the ...

BAGHDAD — She was just 11 when she was sold into wedlock with a man 36 years her senior. In the nine years since, she said she has been raped, beaten, divorced and returned to her family, who ...

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.

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 ...

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Any opinions expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Iraq: Personal Status Law Amendment Sets Back Women's Rights After months of legal and ...