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This is a timeline of documented incidences of women killed by ISIS because of their gender expression, including defying ISIS ascribed roles, behaviors, dress, and other gender attributes. 

We the undersigned organizations write to express our deep concerns about the latest restrictions on civil society participation at the 2017 UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) meetings. This year's CSW is taking place under the shadow of the United States’ escalated anti-immigrant, anti-refugee, and anti-Muslim policies, which are preventing some women from exercising their right to political participation at UN Headquarters in New York. The policies represent the latest in a long history of restrictive migration, refugee and asylum measures that subject women and their families to hate crimes, detention, deportation and family separation, while undermining core universal human rights regarding migrant and refugee rights, and worker protections. These circumstances emphasize the urgent need for women facing multiple discriminations to be at the center of conversations on human rights at CSW.

Today our Human Rights Advocacy Director, Lisa Davis, spoke to the United Nations Security Council on behalf of the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security on the need to include women in solutions to violent extremism and sexual violence in conflict.

The report focuses on women and girls' lack of access to education, as well as their lack of access to healthcare, including care specific to victims of gender-based violence. It also illustrates the unavailability of protection and justice for women and girls in the face of ongoing gender-based violence, including sexual violence, forced and early marriage, and "honor" crimes. 

The report focuses on six main areas of concerns in relation to the status of the rights of women and girls in Iraq, including the prevalence of gender-based violence, impunity for human rights violations against women and girls, and discriminatory legal provisions.

The report focused on the situation of LGBT children and adolescents in relation to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), and examines the state of Chile’s compliance with its obligations under CRC.

The submission focused on issues related to the treatment of lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LBT) persons in Haiti, as well as women’s human rights defenders.

The report addresses urgent areas of concern related to the torture of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in Iraq under several articles of the Convention. 

MADRE, the International Women's Human Rights Clinic at CUNY Law School and the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) produced this report in consultation and collaboration with other Iraqi Women’s organizations and activists in Iraq.

The report focuses on violations of the rights of Iraqi women suffering violence and discrimination. The information was gathered through field visits, drawn from the primary documentation of personal testimonies gathered in Iraq since 2010 in both English and Arabic, and is supported by reports by news agencies, governments, and international human rights organizations. 

The report compiled by MADRE, the Organization of Women's Freedom (OWFI), and  International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (OutRight) contains first-hand accounts of anti-LGBT violence and discrimination from five Iraqis. 

The report provides a brief background on the Syrian conflict, the role of women in the initial peaceful uprising, and their subsequent exclusion from high-level peace negotiations.