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1 story for 2026-03-05 · Women's rights & gender-based violence · Iraq

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♀️ Women's rights & gender-based violence · Amnesty International, Al Jazeera Arabic

Iraqi women's rights activist killed by unidentified gunmen in Baghdad

Yanar Mohammed, a prominent Iraqi women's rights activist, was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle outside her home in northern Baghdad. Amnesty International called the killing a calculated assault to stifle human rights defenders and called for accountability.