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The secret recipe on how to respond to a harasser

What sex position do you prefer? What porn movie do you like? You seemed okay with it. It’s normal. I sent it by accident. You tell someone that you experienced cyber harassment and have these horrifying sentences in your chat as evidence. They respond, Just block him. You don’t have to just do that. Here is the secret recipe for responding to a predator.

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The Department of Justice’s prison uniforms bring disease to Iraq: After the investigation, the itching began

If you put on one of the detention centre uniforms in Iraq, there is a possibility that you will contract a skin disease such as scabies. After the investigation, the itching begins. On infected uniforms in prisons and detention centres in Iraq.

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‘4 students in 5 meters.’ Living under surveillance in female dormitories  

When female students leave home to study, they can find themselves in dormitories that look like prisons. If they object, their university studies become threatened.

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When they come in a four-wheel drive, the green spaces disappear

An investigation into the deep state of real estate in Hilla, shows its arms extending across municipal departments, real estate registry and other regulatory bodies, all for the benefit of government officials and judges. This report is also about those people who, when they show up in their SUVs, seem to make the green spaces disappear.

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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.