Middle East Centre. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Battling the 'Patriarchal Trifecta': Women in the Kurdistan Region o ...

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In Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, teenage girls are commonly forced to marry before reaching adulthood, in spite of laws setting ...

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He got national attention standing up for his lesbian moms. Now he wants to defend his state's access to health care.

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TWO former slaves have issued a stark warning to the West about Syria’s new “reformer” president Ahmed al-Sharaa. Yazidi ...

The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has addressed the UN Human Rights Council highlighting key women's rights issues during the council's session that reviewed the human rights situation in Iraq. Iraq ...

A 45-year-old groom allegedly married a six-year-old girl in Afghanistan in a wedding that left even the Taliban “horrified”.

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Dozens of Syrian Alawite women are missing — thought to have been abducted or worse. Motives behind the suspected abductions are thought to be political and criminal.