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The network of underground shelters she runs through her nonprofit, the Organization for Women’s Freedom in Iraq, was originally meant to protect women from honor killings and domestic abuse. Now, they are flooded with refugees.

While the world’s eyes are turned toward Israel’s bombing campaign against Gaza, the situation in Iraq continues to unravel.

This weekend, activists and allies of the LGBT community will be celebrating Pride. It's a joyous moment, recognizing the progress that advocates have made in advancing the human rights of LGBT people. It's also a time to honor the ongoing...

"Sexual jihad" uses political and religious ideology to justify forms of sexual violence and human trafficking. The tactic is being used by ISIS militants to terrorize unmarried women in Iraq. What can be done to protect these women?

Yanar Mohammed joins HuffPost Live to discuss the constant threats of rape and murder faced by Iraqi women every day.

Among most traumatized are women and children, drawn into a new humanitarian crisis — the most severe in living memory for its swiftness and intensity.

Listening to talking heads discuss the current situation in Iraq and call for airstrikes, one would think the last two catastrophic decades of U.S. military action in Iraq never happened.

These violations include sexual violence, torture and forced marriage

Eleven years ago this month, the U.S. invaded Iraq. Today, a group of Iraq civilians and U.S. veterans of the war are coming together in Washington to demand the U.S. government be held accountable for the lasting effects of war at home and abroad. 

This report calls for accountability and redress for these violations, which experts consider to be crimes against humanity and war crimes

Calling it legalized pedophilia, Iraqi women activists and others have come out in force against a proposed change of the Iraqi family law that will make it legal to marry a girl of nine. 

The presence of extractive industries on land belonging to indigenous peoples has degenerated into a state of systematic violence against women