Womens Rights

The demonstration against underage marriage in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad on August 8, 2024, amid parliamentary discussions over a proposed amendment to the Iraqi Personal Status Law. (Photo: AFP)

Iraq

Iraqi SJC backs controversial Personal Status Law amendment

An illustration for an Iraqi women. (Photo: Daraj Media)

Iraq

Iraqi women face hurdles in private sector employment

British-Kurdish aid worker Taban Shoresh (Photo: Taban Shoresh/Facebook).

World

UK honours British Kurd for services to refugees and survivors in Kurdistan Region

The Kurdistan Region's Minister of Interior, Rebar Ahmad, discussed a new anti-domestic violence bill in the Kurdistan Parliament on Monday, June 6, 2022 (Photo: Rebar Ahmad)

Kurdistan

Social awareness essential for reducing violence against women: Interior Minister

The studio of Equality Radio on the first day of broadcasting, March 8, 2022. (Photo: Erbil Governorate)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan Region launches women's issues-focused Equality Radio

PM Masrour Barzani delivers speech for Internatoinal Women's Day in Erbil, March 8, 2022 (Photo:KRG)

Kurdistan

PM Barzani emphasizes importance of women's rights, combating GBV

Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

‘Kurdistan Women Union has an important and honorable history’: PM Barzani

UNCHR held a campaign against gender-based violence near the ancient citadel of Erbil (Photo: Wladimir van Wilgenburg/Kurdistan 24

Kurdistan

UNHCR holds event against gender-based violence in Erbil

The exhibition shows the gravestones of women murdered in honour killings. (Photo: Wladimir van Wilgenburg/Kurdistan 24).

Kurdistan

‘Untitled’ exhibition focuses on female victims of honor killings

The Kurdistan Region’s Council of Ministers hold a cabinet session. (Photo: KRG)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan Region cabinet approves bylaws of Supreme Council for Women

A burqa-clad woman carrying a sack walks along a street in Kabul on October 8, 2021. (Photo: Hoshang Hashimi / AFP)

Middle East

Anxiety and fear for women in Taliban stronghold

An advertisement for a government hotline for victims of domestic violence in the Kurdistan Region.. (Photo: KRG)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan Region to increase shelters, other resources for female victims of domestic violence

A protester confronts police officers preventing the group from marching against the Turkish government’s decision to withdraw from Istanbul Convention, in Istanbul, July 1, 2021. (Photo: Kemal Aslan/AP)

Turkey

Turkey officially withdraws from treaty protecting women

Female supporters of Iranian presidential candidate Ebrahim Raisi hold up his posters during a campaign rally in Eslamshahr, about 25 km south of Tehran, June 6, 2021. (Photo: AFP)

Iran

'Long and difficult' path to political equality for Iran women

A photo of the late Leyla Qassim. (Photo: Archive)

Kurdistan

Leyla Qasim, the bride of Kurdistan: Honoring the first woman executed in Iraq

Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani chairs a meeting on ways to combat violence against women, May 5, 2021. (Photo: KRG)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan PM chairs meeting on combatting violence against women