Family matters - including marriage, divorce and inheritance - will now be under the control of Islamic courts, which some say will permit the marriage of children as young as nine years old ...

Iraq is predominantly Shia ... the current law unifies all segments of society under a single code while enshrining the rights of women and children. As well as setting the age of marriage ...

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Iraq’s top court has suspended implementation of three controversial bills passed last month by the country’s parliament, including a measure that activists say undermines women’s rights.

Activists argue this undermines Iraq’s 1959 Personal Status Law, which unified family law and established safeguards for women. Intisar al-Mayali, a human rights activist and a member of the ...

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 ...

This project examines the effectiveness of Iraq’s gender quota, which reserves 25% of all seats in the Council of Representatives for women, in enabling women’s substantive political representation ...