HUMAN RIGHTS IN IRAQ
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Iraq: Ensure Accountability for Killing of Women’s Rights Activist Yanar Mohammed
March 4, 2026
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Iraq: Six Years Since Tishreen Protests, Activists Persecuted and Freedom of Expression in Peril
October 1, 2025
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Kurdistan Region of Iraq: New Sentence for Journalist Weeks Before Planned Release is Evidence of Perverse Practice Used to Punish Critics
August 20, 2025
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Iraq: Lawmakers Must Ensure New Law Does Not Unduly Restrict Freedoms of Expression and Peaceful Assembly 
August 1, 2025
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Iraq: People Held in Al-Jed’ah Center Subjected to Torture and Enforced Disappearance After Arrests – New Investigation
October 29, 2024 | Al-Jed’ah
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Iraq: Reject Changes to Personal Status Law Which Would Allow Child Marriage and Further Entrench Discrimination
October 10, 2024
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20 Years Since The US-Led Coalition Invaded Iraq, Impunity Reigns Supreme
March 20, 2023 | Iraq Human Rights
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Mass execution of 21 individuals in Iraq is an outrage
November 17, 2020
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Yezidi child survivors of ‘Islamic State’ facing unprecedented health crisis
July 28, 2020
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Defense Department undercounts civilian casualties in new reporting
May 6, 2020 | civilian casualties
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Death penalty 2019: Global executions fell by 5, hitting a 10-year low
April 20, 2020 | death penalty