New community garden at the SEED trauma centre, Bardarash camp Our community garden at the SEED Foundation trauma centre in Bardarash camp is finished! And the garden is already being used. Isn’t it wonderful to see the children singing? It is literally music to our ears. Read more
NGOs call for urgent implementation of Yezidi Survivors Law ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Coalition for Just Reparations (C4JR), an alliance of Iraqi non-governmental organizations (NGOs), called on the international community to appeal for the implementation of Iraq's Yezidi Survivors Law during a meeting with the UN's Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Alice Wairimu [...]
Woman stabbed multiple times by brother in Erbil ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A woman was stabbed by one of her brothers dozens of times in Erbil late Monday over a dispute dating back to 2014. The woman told Rudaw on Wednesday that this was the third murder attempt by her family. Read more [...]
Man arrested in Sulaimani for allegedly stabbing wife ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A man believed to have stabbed his wife multiple times with a knife in Sulaimani province was arrested a few days after the incident by the internal security forces (Asayish), a source from the forces confirmed to Rudaw on Wednesday. Read more [...]
Woman allegedly killed by husband in Erbil ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A woman was allegedly killed by her husband in Erbil province on Monday with the suspect arrested shortly after, according to a statement from the province’s police directorate. Read more
Man arrested for allegedly slitting wife’s throat in Erbil ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Erbil police on Thursday announced the arrest of a man suspected of slitting his wife’s throat in the Kurdish capital, marking the most gruesome crime in a series of femicides that has engulfed the Kurdistan Region since the start of the year. [...]
A year on from Iraq’s Yazidi Survivors Law, nothing has changed for those who return KHANKE, Kurdistan Region - A little under two months ago, from her home in the village of Khanke in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, Khansa Khder Khadida received a phone call informing her of the discovery of her eldest grandchild, 18-year-old Roza [...]
Another woman killed in the Kurdistan Region ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Another woman was found dead in the Kurdish capital late Sunday night, less than two days before International Women’s Day. Amid a spike of women killings in the Kurdistan Region, Eman Sami Maghdid, 20, was murdered by unknown assailants on Erbil’s 100 meters street, [...]
Woman allegedly burnt alive by husband dies ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A woman who had been reportedly set ablaze by her husband in Sulaimani died after spending five days in the hospital with serious burns, a family member told Rudaw on Wednesday. Read more
Kurdistan Region top officials condemn the murder of another woman ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Kurdistan Region's senior officials on Wednesday condemned the death of a 21-year-old woman who was allegedly set on fire by her husband in Sulaimani on Saturday. Shnyar Hunar was reportedly burnt alive by her husband early Saturday. The mother of two [...]