Iraq already has a problem with child marriages. As it currently stands, the Personal Status Act (No. 188 of 1959) sets up the minimum age for marriage at 18 years for women and men, with a legal ...

Image by Robert Bociaga. Women’s barriers and climate change In Iraq, climate change has intensified environmental challenges such as drought, desertification and water scarcity.

By Georgena Habbaba ACI MENA, Nov 29, 2024 / 06:00 am Recent attempts to amend Iraq’s Personal Status Law — a civil set of laws regarding family life — have sparked significant controversy.

After months of legal and political wrangling, an amendment to Iraq's Personal Status Law that entered into force on February 17, 2025, violates women's and girls' rights to equality before the ...

The council's decisions must be approved by L. Paul Bremer, the chief U.S. administrator in Iraq, and aides said unofficially that his imprimatur for this change was unlikely.

She said: 'As I speak with you today, there are about 5,000 women stranded in Iraq. I just dealt with a case last week. A husband sent his wife to Iraq to go and be a caregiver. She's dead.

A n amendment to Iraq’s 1959 Personal Status law was officially proposed in the Iraqi parliament on Aug. 4. The draft law could theoretically make it legal for girls as young as nine years old ...

More than 300,000 women served tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, Manning said. At least 179 of them died and more than 1,000 were wounded during various operations, according to federal data ...