Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The killing of prominent Iraqi women’s rights activist Yanar Mohammed has fuelled an outpouring of grief and calls for justice, ...

IRBIL, Iraq — Shaimaa Saadoun is haunted by her memory of being forced into an abusive marriage to a 39-year-old man just after she turned 13. Her impoverished family near the southern Iraqi city of ...

IRBIL, Iraq -- Shaimaa Saadoun is haunted by her memory of being forced into an abusive marriage to a 39-year-old man just after she turned 13. Her impoverished family near the southern Iraqi city of ...

At this year's Cairo Intl. Film Festival, Iraqi filmmaker Zahraa Ghandour marks a notable milestone with "Flana," a documentary centered on the lived realities of Iraqi women. After its world premiere ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tamara Amer is fighting “a fierce battle against negative social control, a culture of silence, and the oppression of women in ...

More than twice as many women are standing in Iraq's general election on Tuesday as four years ago, hoping for greater female representation in parliament despite the financial and social challenges ...

Though security is improving in Iraq, conditions for women have worsened according to two new studies. Many Iraqi women, according to reports, are suffering from mental illness, lack of necessities, ...

of her group’s program in Iraq: “Just surviving there is an accomplishment in itself.” Ms. Salbi is the founder and chief executive of Women for Women International, in Washington, a group that offers ...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's state minister for women's affairs has quit to protest a lack of resources for a daunting task — improving the lives of “a full army of widows” and other women left poor or ...

HILLA, Iraq -- The U.S. administrator in Iraq told a gathering of Iraqi women Tuesday that they could make a vital contribution to a free and democratic society. "The work you do will make a ...