Women in Iraq, the Glossary
The status of women in Iraq at the beginning of the 21st century is affected by many factors: wars (most recently the Iraq War), sectarian religious debates concerning Islamic law and Iraq's Constitution, cultural traditions, and modern secularism.[1]
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138 relations: Abbasid Caliphate, Abbasid harem, Abu al-Husn and His Slave-Girl Tawaddud, Achaemenid Empire, Al Iraqiya, Al Jazeera Media Network, Alternative libertaire, Amir Hassanpour, Amnesty International, Arabic grammar, Arabic literature, Arabic music, Arabic poetry, Arranged marriage, Astronomy in the medieval Islamic world, Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, Ba'ath Party (Iraqi-dominated faction), Ba'athist Iraq, Baghdad, Beatrice Forbes Manz, Bimaristan, Chess, Child marriage, Christianity in Iraq, CNN, Code Pink, Constitution, Constitution of Iraq, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, Council of Representatives of Iraq, Divorce, Domestic violence, Duhok, Early Islamic philosophy, Erbil, Family law, Female genital mutilation, Female infanticide, Forced marriage, General Federation of Iraqi Women, Gulf War, Harassment, Harun al-Rashid, Hijab, Honor killing, Houzan Mahmoud, Human rights, Human rights defender, Human Rights Watch, Humanism, ... Expand index (88 more) »
Abbasid Caliphate
The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire (translit) was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
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Abbasid harem
The harem of the caliphs of the Abbasid Caliphate (750–1258) in Baghdad was composed of his mother, wives, slave concubines, female relatives and slave servants (women and eunuchs), occupying a secluded portion of the Abbasid household.
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Abu al-Husn and His Slave-Girl Tawaddud
Abu al-Husn and His Slave-Girl Tawaddud is a story that is first attested in medieval Arabic (later appearing in the Thousand and One Nights) that, besides being well known in itself, inspired spin-offs in Persian, Spanish, Portuguese, Mayan, and Tagalog.
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Achaemenid Empire
The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire, also known as the Persian Empire or First Persian Empire (𐎧𐏁𐏂), was an ancient Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BC.
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Al Iraqiya
Al Iraqiya (العراقيّة, al-ʿIrāqiyyä) is a satellite and terrestrial public broadcaster and television network in Iraq that was set up after the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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Al Jazeera Media Network (AJMN; The Peninsula) is a private-media conglomerate headquartered at Wadi Al Sail, Doha, funded in part by the government of Qatar.
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Alternative libertaire
Alternative libertaire (AL, "Libertarian Alternative") was a French anarchist organization formed in 1991 which publishes a monthly magazine, actively participates in a variety of social movements, and is a participant in the Anarkismo.net project.
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Amir Hassanpour
Amir Hassanpour (امیر حسنپور, translit; 17 November 1943 – 24 June 2017) was an Iranian scholar and researcher.
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Amnesty International
Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom.
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Arabic grammar
Arabic grammar (النَّحْوُ العَرَبِيُّ) is the grammar of the Arabic language.
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Arabic literature
Arabic literature (الأدب العربي / ALA-LC: al-Adab al-‘Arabī) is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language.
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Arabic music
Arabic music (al-mūsīqā al-ʿarabīyyah) is the music of the Arab world with all its diverse music styles and genres.
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Arabic poetry
Arabic poetry (الشعر العربي ash-shi‘r al-‘arabīyy) is one of the earliest forms of Arabic literature.
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Arranged marriage
Arranged marriage is a type of marital union where the bride and groom are primarily selected by individuals other than the couple themselves, particularly by family members such as the parents.
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Astronomy in the medieval Islamic world
Medieval Islamic astronomy comprises the astronomical developments made in the Islamic world, particularly during the Islamic Golden Age (9th–13th centuries), and mostly written in the Arabic language.
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Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria
The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), also known as Rojava, is a de facto autonomous region in northeastern Syria.
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Ba'ath Party (Iraqi-dominated faction)
The Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party (spelled "Ba'th" or "Baath", "resurrection" or "renaissance"; حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي Ḥizb al-Ba‘th al-‘Arabī al-Ishtirākī), also referred to as the pro-Iraqi Ba'ath movement, is a neo-Ba'athist political party which was headquartered in Baghdad, Iraq, until 2003.
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Ba'athist Iraq
Ba'athist Iraq, officially the Iraqi Republic (1968–1992) and later the Republic of Iraq (1992–2003), was the Iraqi state between 1968 and 2003 under the rule of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party.
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Baghdad
Baghdad (or; translit) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab and in West Asia after Tehran.
Beatrice Forbes Manz
Beatrice Forbes Manz is an American historian of the Middle East and Central Asia who specializes in nomads and the Timurid dynasty.
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Bimaristan
A bimaristan, or simply maristan, known in Arabic also as dar al-shifa ("house of healing"; darüşşifa in Turkish), is a hospital in the historic Islamic world.
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Chess
Chess is a board game for two players.
Child marriage
Child marriage is a marriage or domestic partnership, formal or informal, between a child and an adult, or between a child and another child.
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Christianity in Iraq
The Christians of Iraq are considered to be one of the oldest continuous Christian communities in the world.
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CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
Code Pink
Code Pink: Women for Peace (often stylized as CODEPINK) is a left-wing, anti-war organization registered in the United States as a 501(c)(3) organization.
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Constitution
A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organization or other type of entity, and commonly determines how that entity is to be governed.
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Constitution of Iraq
The Constitution of the Republic of Iraq (دستور جمهورية العراق Kurdish: دەستووری عێراق) is the fundamental law of Iraq.
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Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
The Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is an international treaty adopted in 1979 by the United Nations General Assembly.
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Council of Representatives of Iraq
The Council of Representatives (Majlis an-Nuwwāb al-ʿIrāqiyy; ئهنجومهنی نوێنهران, Encûmena Nûnerên Iraqê), usually referred to simply as the Parliament, is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of Iraq.
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Divorce
Divorce (also known as dissolution of marriage) is the process of terminating a marriage or marital union.
Domestic violence
Domestic violence is violence or other abuse that occurs in a domestic setting, such as in a marriage or cohabitation.
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Duhok
Duhok (translit; Dohūk.; Beth Nohadra., Dohok) is a city in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Early Islamic philosophy
Early Islamic philosophy or classical Islamic philosophy is a period of intense philosophical development beginning in the 2nd century AH of the Islamic calendar (early 9th century CE) and lasting until the 6th century AH (late 12th century CE).
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Erbil
Erbil (أربيل,; ܐܲܪܒܹܝܠ), also called Hawler, is the capital and most populated city in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Family law
Family law (also called matrimonial law or the law of domestic relations) is an area of the law that deals with family matters and domestic relations.
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Female genital mutilation
Female genital mutilation (FGM) (also known as female genital cutting, female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and female circumcision) is the ritual cutting or removal of some or all of the vulva.
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Female infanticide
Female infanticide is the deliberate killing of newborn female children.
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Forced marriage
Forced marriage is a marriage in which one or more of the parties is married without their consent or against their will.
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General Federation of Iraqi Women
The General Federation of Iraqi Women (GFIW) or General Union of Iraqi Women (الاتحاد العاملنساء العراق Al-Ettihaad Al-Aam Li-Nissa' Al-Iraq) is an Iraqi women's organization founded by the Ba'ath Party in 1969.
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Gulf War
The Gulf War was an armed conflict between Iraq and a 42-country coalition led by the United States.
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Harassment
Harassment covers a wide range of behaviors of offensive nature.
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Harun al-Rashid
Abu Ja'far Harun ibn Muhammad al-Mahdi (Abū Ja'far Hārūn ibn Muḥammad al-Mahdī), or simply Harun ibn al-Mahdi (or 766 – 24 March 809), famously known as Harun al-Rashid (Hārūn ar-Rashīd), was the fifth Abbasid caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate, reigning from September 786 until his death in March 809.
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Hijab
In modern usage, hijab (translit) generally refers to various head coverings conventionally worn by many Muslim women.
Honor killing
An honor killing (American English), honour killing (Commonwealth English), or shame killing is a traditional form of murder in which a person is killed by or at the behest of members of their family or their partner, due to culturally sanctioned beliefs that such homicides are necessary as retribution for the perceived dishonoring of the family by the victim.
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Houzan Mahmoud
Houzan Mahmoud (born 1973) is a Kurdish feminist, writer and anti-war activist born in South Kurdistan.
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Human rights
Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,.
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Human rights defender
A human rights defender or human rights activist is a person who, individually or with others, acts to promote or protect human rights.
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Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization headquartered in New York City that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.
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Humanism
Humanism is a philosophical stance that emphasizes the individual and social potential, and agency of human beings, whom it considers the starting point for serious moral and philosophical inquiry.
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Husain al-Rahhal
Husain al-Rahhal (1900–1971) was an Iraqi translator, journalist and Communist activist, who helped found the Iraqi Communist Party.
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Incarceration of women
Approximately 741,000 women are incarcerated in correctional facilities, a 17% increase since 2010 and the female prison population has been increasing across all continents.
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Intimidation
Intimidation is a behaviour and legal wrong which usually involves deterring or coercing an individual by threat of violence.
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Iran–Iraq War
The Iran–Iraq War, also known as the First Gulf War, was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988.
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Iraq
Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.
Iraq War
The Iraq War, sometimes called the Second Persian Gulf War, or Second Gulf War was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion of Iraq by the United States-led coalition that overthrew the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the coalition forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government.
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Iraqi Interim Government
The Iraqi Interim Government was created by the United States and its coalition allies as a caretaker government to govern Iraq until the drafting of the new constitution following the National Assembly election conducted on January 30, 2005.
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Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait began on 2 August 1990 and marked the beginning of the Gulf War.
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Iraqi Kurdistan
Iraqi Kurdistan or Southern Kurdistan (Başûrê Kurdistanê) refers to the Kurdish-populated part of northern Iraq.
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Iraqi Penal Code
The Iraqi Penal Code is the statutory law of Iraq.
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Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
Islamic fundamentalism
Islamic fundamentalism has been defined as a revivalist and reform movement of Muslims who aim to return to the founding scriptures of Islam.
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Islamic State
The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnational Salafi jihadist group and an unrecognised quasi-state.
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Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq
The Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI or SIIC; المجلس الأعلى الإسلامي العراقي Al-Majlis Al-A'ala Al-Islami Al-'Iraqi; previously known as the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, SCIRI) is a Shia Islamist political party in Iraq.
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Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
Killing of Tiba al-Ali
On 31 January 2023, Tiba al-Ali, an Iraqi Youtube influencer, was killed in Iraq in an apparent honour killing by her father.
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Kirkuk
Kirkuk (كركوك; translit;; Kerkük) is a city in Iraq, serving as the capital of the Kirkuk Governorate, located north of Baghdad.
Kurdish nationalism
Kurdish nationalism is a nationalist political movement which asserts that Kurds are a nation and espouses the creation of an independent Kurdistan from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Armenia and Turkey.
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Kurdistan
Kurdistan (lit), or Greater Kurdistan, is a roughly defined geo-cultural region in West Asia wherein the Kurds form a prominent majority population and the Kurdish culture, languages, and national identity have historically been based.
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Kurdistan Region
Kurdistan Region (KRI; Herêmî Kurdistan; Herêma Kurdistanê; Iqlīm Kurdistān) is an autonomous administrative entity within the Republic of Iraq.
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Layla (magazine)
Layla was a first women's magazine published in Baghdad, Iraq, in 1923.
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Literacy
Literacy is the ability to read and write.
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Marriage
Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses.
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MBC Group
MBC Group (Majmūʿat ʾIm Bī Sī), formerly known as Middle East Broadcasting Center (label), is a Saudi media conglomerate based in the Middle East and North Africa region.
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Medicine in the medieval Islamic world
In the history of medicine, "Islamic medicine" Also known as "Arabian medicine" is the science of medicine developed in the Middle East, and usually written in Arabic, the lingua franca of Islamic civilization.
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Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent.
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Middle East
The Middle East (term originally coined in English Translations of this term in some of the region's major languages include: translit; translit; translit; script; translit; اوْرتاشرق; Orta Doğu.) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.
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Mongol Empire
The Mongol Empire of the 13th and 14th centuries was the largest contiguous empire in history.
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Nadje Sadig Al-Ali
Nadje Sadig Al-Ali (born 1966; نادية صادق العلي) is a German-Iraqi academic of social anthropology and Middle East studies and feminist activist.
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Nasiriyah
Nasiriyah (an-Nāṣiriyya, BGN), also spelled Nassiriya or Nasiriya, is a city in Iraq, the capital of the Dhi Qar Governorate.
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Non-governmental organization
A non-governmental organization (NGO) (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government.
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Nouri al-Maliki
Nouri Kamil Muhammad-Hasan al-Maliki (نوري كامل محمد حسن المالكي; born 20 June 1950), also known as Jawad al-Maliki (rtl), is an Iraqi politician and leader of the Islamic Dawa Party since 2007.
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Occupation of Iraq (2003–2011)
The Occupation of Iraq (2003–2011) was characterized by a large United States military deployment on Iraqi territory, beginning with the US-led invasion of the country in March 2003 which overthrew the Ba'ath Party government of Saddam Hussein and ending with the departure of US troops from the country in 2011.
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One Thousand and One Nights
One Thousand and One Nights (أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ) is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age.
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Oppression
Oppression is malicious or unjust treatment of, or exercise of power over, a group of individuals, often in the form of governmental authority or cultural opprobrium.
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Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq
The Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) is an organization which campaigns in favour of women's rights in Iraq, and against political Islam and against the occupation of Iraq by the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Patriarchy
Patriarchy is a social system in which positions of dominance and privilege are held by men.
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Patrilineality
Patrilineality, also known as the male line, the spear side or agnatic kinship, is a common kinship system in which an individual's family membership derives from and is recorded through their father's lineage.
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Paul Bremer
Lewis Paul Bremer III (born September 30, 1941) is a retired American diplomat.
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Paulina Hassoun
Pauline Hassoun (1895–1969) was an Iraqi journalist and teacher, who was the first woman to found and publish a magazine in Iraq.
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Peshmerga
The Peshmerga (پێشمەرگه) comprise the standing military of Kurdistan Region, an autonomous political entity within the Republic of Iraq.
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Polygamy
Polygamy (from Late Greek πολυγαμία, "state of marriage to many spouses") is the practice of marrying multiple spouses.
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Propaganda
Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is being presented.
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Prostitution
Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for payment.
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Prostitution in Iraq
Prostitution in Iraq is illegal.
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Qiyan
(قِيان,; singular, قَينة) were a social class of women, trained as entertainers, which existed in the pre-modern Islamic world.
Rape
Rape is a type of sexual assault involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without their consent.
Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003.
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Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia and the Middle East.
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Schools of Islamic theology
Schools of Islamic theology are various Islamic schools and branches in different schools of thought regarding creed.
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Secularism
Secularism is the principle of seeking to conduct human affairs based on naturalistic considerations, uninvolved with religion.
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Sex segregation
Sex segregation, sex separation, sex partition, gender segregation, gender separation, or gender partition is the physical, legal, or cultural separation of people according to their biological sex at any age.
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Sexual harassment
Sexual harassment is a type of harassment involving the use of explicit or implicit sexual overtones, including the unwelcome and inappropriate promises of rewards in exchange for sexual favors.
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Sexual slavery
Sexual slavery and sexual exploitation is an attachment of any ownership right over one or more people with the intent of coercing or otherwise forcing them to engage in sexual activities.
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Sharia
Sharia (sharīʿah) is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition based on scriptures of Islam, particularly the Quran and hadith.
Shia Islam
Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam.
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Siege of Baghdad
The siege of Baghdad took place in early 1258 at Baghdad, the historic capital of the Abbasid Caliphate.
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Sorani
Sorani Kurdish (rtl, Kurmancîy Xwarû), also known as Central Kurdish, is a Kurdish dialect or a language spoken in Iraq, mainly in Iraqi Kurdistan, as well as the provinces of Kurdistan, Kermanshah, and West Azerbaijan in western Iran.
Sulaymaniyah
Sulaymaniyah or Slemani (Silêmanî; as-Sulaymāniyyah), is a city in the east of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and is the capital of the Sulaymaniyah Governorate.
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Suleiman the Magnificent
Suleiman I (Süleyman-ı Evvel; I.,; 6 November 14946 September 1566), commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in Western Europe and Suleiman the Lawgiver (Ḳānūnī Sulṭān Süleymān) in his Ottoman realm, was the longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1520 until his death in 1566.
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Sunni Islam
Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.
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Syrian refugee camps
Syrian refugee camp and shelters are temporary settlements built to receive internally displaced people and refugees of the Syrian Civil War.
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Tanya Gilly Khailany
Tanya Gilly Khailany (born in Iraqi-Kurdistan) is an activist and former member of the Iraqi Parliament from 2006 – 2010.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The New Humanitarian
The New Humanitarian, previously known as IRIN News, or Integrated Regional Information Networks News, is an independent, non-profit news agency.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize
The Professor Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize (Raftoprisen) is a human rights award established in the memory of the Norwegian human rights activist, Thorolf Rafto.
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Timurid Empire
The Timurid Empire was a late medieval, culturally Persianate Turco-Mongol empire that dominated Greater Iran in the early 15th century, comprising modern-day Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, much of Central Asia, the South Caucasus, and parts of contemporary Pakistan, North India and Turkey.
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Transnational feminism
Transnational feminism refers to both a contemporary feminist paradigm and the corresponding activist movement.
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Turkic peoples
The Turkic peoples are a collection of diverse ethnic groups of West, Central, East, and North Asia as well as parts of Europe, who speak Turkic languages.
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Turkish people
Turkish people or Turks (Türkler) are the largest Turkic people who speak various dialects of the Turkish language and form a majority in Turkey and Northern Cyprus.
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Ulama
In Islam, the ulama (the learned ones; singular ʿālim; feminine singular alimah; plural aalimath), also spelled ulema, are scholars of Islamic doctrine and law.
UNICEF
UNICEF, originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, officially United Nations Children's Fund since 1953, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
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United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq
The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) was formed on 14 August 2003 by United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1500 at the request of the Iraqi government to support national development efforts.
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Violence against women
Violence against women (VAW), also known as gender-based violence and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), is violent acts primarily or exclusively committed by men or boys against women or girls.
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Women in Iraq
The status of women in Iraq at the beginning of the 21st century is affected by many factors: wars (most recently the Iraq War), sectarian religious debates concerning Islamic law and Iraq's Constitution, cultural traditions, and modern secularism. Women in Iraq and women in Iraq are women by country.
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Women's Awakening Club
Women's Awakening Club (Nadi al-Nahda al-. Nisa'iyya), also called Women's Renaissance Club, was a women's organization in Iraq, founded in 1923.
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Women's rights
Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
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Yanar Mohammed
Yanar Mohammed (ينار محمد; born 1960) is a prominent Iraqi feminist who was born in Baghdad.
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Yazidi genocide
The Yazidi genocide was perpetrated by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria between 2014 and 2017.
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Yazidis
Yazidis, also spelled Yezidis (translit), are a Kurdish-speaking endogamous religious group who are indigenous to Kurdistan, a geographical region in Western Asia that includes parts of Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran.
1991 Iraqi uprisings
The 1991 Iraqi uprisings were ethnic and religious uprisings against Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq that were led by Shia Arabs and Kurds.
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2003 invasion of Iraq
The 2003 invasion of Iraq was the first stage of the Iraq War.
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2019–2021 Iraqi protests
A series of demonstrations, marches, sit-ins and civil disobedience took place in Iraq from 2019 until 2021.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Iraq
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