Iraq
Gay killings on rise in Iraq?
BAGHDAD, May 28 (UPI) -- About 30 people have been killed in Iraq in the past three months because they were homosexual or believed to be gay, a U.N. agency says.
Iraqi gays face gruesome torture/murder technique
As the murder campaign targeting Iraqi gays intensifies, a leading Arabic television network last week revealed the use of a horrifying new form of lethal torture against Iraqi gay men - anti-gay Shii
SOFA in Iraq: Would you marry your rapist?
Yanar Mohammed, President of the Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq () compares the States of Forces Agreement to forced marriage witha rapist (
Don't blame the victims of violence against women
Hamida Ghafour
As a woman travelling and working alone in the Islamic world I am sometimes not subject to the same rules as my male colleagues, which has its advantages.
The Iraqi teenage girl killed for loving a British soldier
Afif Sarhan in Basra
The Observer, Sunday 27 April 2008
Female Genital Cutting in Kurdistan
For Kurdish Girls, a Painful Ancient Ritual
The Widespread Practice of Female Circumcision in Iraq's North Highlights The Plight of Women in a Region Often Seen as More Socially Progressive
Tariq Ali on "Honour Killing"
Tariq Ali
Iraq: Hitman charges $100 a victim as Basra honour killings rise
IRAQ - HITMEN CHARGE $100 A VICTIM AS BASRA HONOUR KILLINGS RISE
Fathers and husbands who openly hire assassins on the streets of the city are going unpunished