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Iraq: Sectarian violence forces mixed couples to divorce
Because of escalating sectarian violence, marriages between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims in Iraq are under threat.
Iraq: Seeing the world through a gender sensitive lens
Women in war and conflict zones more and more are sharing their thoughts on looking at the world in a gender sensitive lens and raising their voice to the atrocities of war and its impact on women and girls.
Iraq: Meeting of the Iraqi women's movement
Details of a recent strategic meeting of the Iraqi women's movement, involving most of the active alliances of women's networks in Iraq.
Iraq: Sex traffickers target women
Thousands of Iraqi women are being taken advantage of by unscrupulous sex worker traffickers seeking to exploit young girls’ desperate socio-economic situation for profit, United Nations agencies have reported.
العراقيون وآمال الديمقراطية:ضرورة فصل الدين عن الدولة
UPDATE: Iraq: Campaign to affirm Personal Status Law and remove Article 41 from the constitution
We have received the following information from Iraqi friends who have initiated a campaign now that the constitutional committee has been formed. Their demands will be sent to the committee, to urge them to affirm the Personal Status Law and to remove Article 41 from the Iraqi constitution.
Iraq: Conference on women's role in national reconciliation
The conference was held in Kurdistan-Erbil on 21-22 September 2006, under the slogan "let's build a safe home" and dealt with women's role in achieving national reconciliation.
Iraq: Fight for the rights of Iraqi women
The new Constitution threatens to restore "Islamic Law" and with it a dismantling of the rights of Iraqi women.
Iraq: Women meet to protect rights in the Iraqi constitution
A brief report of a conference on women's rights and personal status law recently held in Baghdad.
Iraq: Baghdad kidnappers targeting women, children
The abduction of women and children has become a lucrative business for gangs in many parts of Iraq and particularly in Baghdad. Women are so fearful of being kidnapped that they rarely go out alone, and hire taxis to go to work.
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