Women walking in Kirkuk. Photo: Serkan Senturk, Shuttertock. The deterioration of women and girls’ status in Iraq has been a result of increasing social and political conservatism, which in turn is an ...

In Iraq, women politicians are typically chosen through informal mechanisms and from within the power networks of parties that have dominated politics since the 2003 invasion. As such, they are less ...

Once in Baghdad, they were not given proper food but lots of work. “We wake up at 5am and go to bed at 11:30pm. I fell sick many times and even bled from mouth twice.” Another woman, Zangmo, also went ...

She said, “As I speak with you today there are about 5000 women stranded in Iraq. I just dealt with a case last week. A husband sent his wife to Iraq to go and be a caregiver. She’s dead.

A 28-year-old trafficked Nigerian woman, Eniola Isaac ... which oversees Iraq. A statement released on Thursday through the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission’s official X.com handle disclosed ...

The woman, Eniola arrived on Friday, January 3, 2025, following SaharaReporters’ story about her ordeal in the Middle East country. A 28-year-old Nigerian woman, Odunayo Eniola Isaac, trafficked ...

Over 5000 Nigerian women are currently stranded in Iraq, the Nigerians in Diaspora ... women have been stranded abroad after travelling through irregular means with promises of jobs.

"After removing the first layer of soil and the remains appearing clearly, it was discovered that they all belonged to women and children dressed in Kurdish springtime clothes ... Tens of thousands ...

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), says it has commenced a rehabilitation programme for a Nigerian woman ... to Iraq a year and 10 months earlier through ...

Iraq’s parliament ... of the Iraqi Women’s League, said passage of the civil status law amendments “will leave disastrous effects on the rights of women and girls, through the marriage ...