Iraq faces challenges with HIV/AIDS, including transmission, secrecy, treatment struggles, and stigma. There's a need for increased awareness and screenings. Nabras Aziz's story highlights the impact on families and stresses early detection and prevention.
The December 2023 Nineveh Provincial Council elections saw Shiite dominance for the first time, impacting governance and reconstruction efforts post-ISIS. The Council faces power struggles, and criticisms over representation.
The law is lenient and society often sees the victim as the perpetrator Shatha (30 years old, a pseudonym) entered a master's program after excelling in her undergraduate studies at a university in Baghdad. While working as a teaching assistant and ranking among the top students, she initially believed achieving her Ph.D., her greatest aspiration,…
Nawzat Shamdine – translated by Walaa Rayya Souad Ahmed (63 years old) spends hours of her day in her missing son's (Amjad) bedroom, talking to his pictures and smelling his clothes. Then she spreads her prayer mat on the floor, and with a crying voice, she prays for him to return to her, his wife,…
Ahmad Al Rabihi and Hassan Al Nassiri / November 2020: 08.09.2The Iraqi police received a report recently of a bride’s suicide one day after her marriage, found hanging from a rope bound from the ceiling of her room … This investigation reveals the reasons for the escalation of suicides in Iraq, as well as how many…
