Yanar Mohammed, 65, Iraqi Women’s Rights Advocate, Is Killed by Gunmen

She established a network of safe houses for abused women and was an outspoken critic of her country’s repressive ...

Iraqi-Canadian women’s rights activist Yanar Mohammed worked under constant threat of violence

Iraqi-Canadian activist and journalist Yanar Mohammed fought for decades to save Iraqi women and girls from violence. After ...

Iraqi feminist who saved thousands from honor killings slain by gunman outside home in Baghdad

Mohammed, who co-founded and directed the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq, was rushed to hospital where she perished ...

Iraqi women’s rights activist Yanar Mohammed killing spurs call for justice

Amnesty International decries Mohammed’s killing as ‘calculated assault to stifle human rights defenders’ in Iraq.
Middle East Eye

Prominent feminist activist Yanar Mohammed shot dead in Iraq

Gunmen shot dead prominent Iraqi feminist Yanar Mohammed outside her home in Baghdad on Monday, her organisation announced.
Human Rights Watch

Iraq: Prominent Women’s Rights Activist Assassinated

A prominent Iraqi women’s rights activist was gunned down outside her Baghdad home by two men on motorcycles on March 2, 2026 ...
IFEX

Iraq: Assassination of feminist leader Yanar Mohammed condemned

IFEX joins rights groups calling for an independent investigation into the killing of Iraqi women's rights defender Yanar Mohammed and urgent protection measures for women human rights defenders ...
Los Angeles Times

Iraqi women fear rise in child marriages as lawmakers consider giving conservative clerics more say

IRBIL, Iraq — Shaimaa Saadoun is haunted by her memory of being forced into an abusive marriage to a 39-year-old man just after she turned 13. Her impoverished family near the southern Iraqi city of ...