“ISIS Is One Piece of the Puzzle”
Yifat Susskind is executive director of MADRE [http://www.madre.org/, an international women's human rights organization based in New York.
Yanar Mohammed: Freeing Mosul Could Be Death Sentence for Iraqi Women
Yanar Mohammed's organization has sheltered sex-trafficking survivors in Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. But with the arrival of ISIS...
Iraq 20 years on: Insider reflections on the war and its aftermath | Two decades of feminist struggle in post-invasion Iraq
This essay collection explores two decades of state-building in Iraq and the lessons to be learned.
Women’s Freedom in Iraq: A Conversation With Yanar Mohammed
Led by Yanar Mohammed, a well-known Iraqi feminist, the organisation runs one of the country's few existing shelters for women, assists those...
Fighting for Gender Equality in Iraq
Yanar Mohammed says the U.S. invasion and occupation hurt women's rights.
From where I stand: Yanar Mohammed
Yanar Mohammed, 55, founded the Organization of Women's Freedom in 2003, to keep vulnerable Iraqi women safe and secure by providing shelters...
In Iraq, Activist Struggles as Women's Rights Shrink
Yanar Mohammed advocates for women's rights in Iraq. It's an uphill fight: From the 1950s to the '70s, Iraqi women could legally work,...
'Iraq for Iraqis': After decades of corruption, occupation and proxy wars, young Iraqis demand a new future
Seventeen years after the U.S.-led invasion that ended Saddam Hussein's regime, peace, prosperity, stability or good government still have...
Update: Shelter for Yazidi Women Fleeing ISIS
CODEPINK is a feminist grassroots organization working to end U.S. wars and militarism, support peace and human rights initiatives, and redirect our tax...
Proposed Bill Amendment in Iraq Could Allow Girls as Young as 9 to Marry. What to Know
The draft law could theoretically make it legal for girls as young as nine years old to get married.
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Iraqi feminist and human-rights activist; founder and president of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI); long‑time campaigner for women’s rights, civil liberties and democratic reform in Iraq.