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Inside Women’s Prisons in Iraq…The Smell of the Toilet Is Your Fate in the “Rust” Unit 

Exploiting women, harassing them, pushing them into prostitution and leaving them to sleep near toilets so they suffer from encroaching diseases. What is happening to women in Iraqi prisons?

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“If I don’t drink tea, I feel like my head is going to explode.” On tea and people who are addicted to it in Iraq

Iraqis consume twice the average daily amount of tea. This is about the journey of tea, from import to brew.

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Draft Iraqi law allowing 9-year-olds to marry would ‘legalise child rape’, say activists

Opponents fear proposed bill could allow girls as young as nine to marry, erode women’s rights and give greater powers to clerics
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Ragpickers: How did environmental pollution become a source of livelihood, and of death? 

Hundreds in the city of Baqubah are risking their bodies and health to collect garbage, and then sell it. The risks do not threaten them alone and extend to the rest of the population. Ragpickers are a source of illness and the proliferation of microorganisms that transmit disease. But how much it is worth protecting one’s health, when collecting garbage can provide what many people need to make it through the day?

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“If you don’t confess, we will bring your mother in your place.” When four youths visit a hospital, it turns into a nightmare in the name of the so-called fight against terrorism. 

This is the story of four youths, the eldest of whom was 13 years old, who visited a patient at the Women and Children Hospital in Diwaniyah province. The visit turned into a nightmare after they were arrested, with accusations levelled at them of burning down the hospital on January 8, 2024, and causing the death of four premature babies.

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Who wants a job that most people end up quitting? On the life of nurses in Iraq 

Siham, Noor, and Maryam: three nurses talk about their merciless work in hospitals, including the related social conditions and stigmas, and low wages. This is enabling specific conditions in a profession that many practitioners are now considering leaving. On the life of nurses in Iraq.

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The Iraqi Right and the Manosphere: United Against Women 

From their formation until their rupture, Iraqi right-wing groups have been dominated by misogynistic ideas. This article contains a critical analysis of the Iraqi right-wing and manosphere phenomenon examining their transformation based on the experiences of the women and men who were their victims.

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Let’s solve a mystery: On confusion and the exchange rate of the Iraqi dinar 

This is the story of the dinar’s exchange rate against the dollar, and the chaos, corruption, and the parties who benefited and who were harmed by this ongoing crisis.

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Religious rigidity in the halls of an Iraqi college: How do we escape the control of the “uncle” and the dean? 

I thought that university would be the first place where I would learn how to exercise my freedom as an adult. But here I am, about to graduate, and I’m still under everyone else’s thumb: the guard at university gates, the taxi driver, the security committee, the professors, and the classmate who thinks I should wear an abaya to be properly covered up.

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Qais Al-Khazali: Jumping to the Front of the Line 

The political ambitions of Qais al-Khazali, the founder and Secretary-General of paramilitary group and political party Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq, have grown. With that growth, questions have arisen around whether he aspires towards building a deep state.