Women's Rights & Gender Equality
IRAQ: Parliament poised to legalize child marriage Sweeping bill imperils women’s, children’s rights Human Rights Watch (16.08.2024) – Iraq’s parliament is moving forward an amendment to the country’s Personal Status Law that would allow Iraqi religious...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
IRAQ: Assault on family law: Iraq moving further from democracy? By Cathrin Schaer Deutsche Welle (14.08.2024) – Conservative politicians want Iraqi family law to be defined by religious rules and plan to change Iraq’s liberal Personal Status Law. The...
Human Rights in the World
IRAQ: Strike injures two Iraqi Kurdish reporters in Sinjar CPJ (10.07.2024) – The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Turkish and Iraqi authorities to investigate after a suspected Turkish strike injured two Iraqi Kurdish reporters. The two Çira TV...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
IRAQ: Less then 50 Christian families back in Mosul since 2014 Ten years after the ISIS occupation: less than 50 Christian families have returned to Mosul by Gianni Valente Agenzia Fides (10.06.2024) – Mosul, ten years later. It was June 10, 2014 when the...
