The Republic of Iraq is located in an area once home to the some of the earliest known civilizations. Tragically, it now ranks as one of the world’s worst places to be a child, where millions of ...

Children in Iraq have very different opportunities for healthy development based on factors beyond their control. There are substantial differences in the opportunities children have in terms of ...

Iraq’s education system has been devastated by ISIS, but there’s still hope of avoiding a ‘lost generation’ Photographs by Diego Ibarra Sánchez After two years in the darkness, living in ...

After months of legal and political wrangling, an amendment to Iraq's Personal Status Law that entered into force on February ...

The death of six children in a road accident in southern Iraq caused outrage, with Iraqis blaming government corruption and ...

Katy Faust, an advocate for children's rights, wrote on X: "Iraq legalizing pedophilia and child rape." Intisar al-Mayali, a human rights activist and member of the Iraqi Women's League ...

Now, their fathers are all in hiding, in jail or dead. Tens of thousands of children in Iraq and Syria are growing up in desolate camps, often stigmatized as the children of terrorists.

Children’s enrollment in primary school was 93% in the Kurdish areas versus 88% in Iraq. However, federal Iraq saw higher rates of home ownership and access to potable water and state electricity.

Prominent guests attended the conclusion of the children’s TV project in Iraq. Hero Talabani, wife of the former president, presented the participants’ certificates – and was enthusiastic ...

Children’s enrollment in primary school was 93% in the Kurdish areas versus 88% in Iraq. However, federal Iraq saw higher rates of home ownership and access to potable water and state electricity.