Lynch was the first American prisoner of war to be rescued since World War II, and the first American woman POW to be ...

Women walking in Kirkuk. Photo: Serkan Senturk, Shuttertock. The deterioration of women and girls’ status in Iraq has been a result of increasing social and political conservatism, which in turn is an ...

An American prisoner of war has been rescued in Iraq. The rescue was announced by ... a crossing point over the Euphrates River. The PoWs were displayed on television by the Iraqis in separate ...

This project examines the effectiveness of Iraq’s gender quota, which reserves 25% of all seats in the Council of Representatives for women, in enabling women’s substantive political representation ...

There is virtually no state provision for victims of domestic abuse in Iraq. As a result, Iraqi women have been left to protect and support each other, organising secret shelters for survivors and ...