Deadly attacks on women rise sharply in Iraqi Kurdistan


Kurdistan's Prime Minister Masrour Barzani says he is 'deeply troubled' by the spate of violent attacks against women. – AFP pic, March 20, 2022.

A WOMAN burned alive by her husband, others shot dead by a father or a teenage brother, bloody violence against women has spiked in northern Iraq’s Kurdish region.

The autonomous area, keen on projecting an image of a relative haven of stability and tolerance in war-battered Iraq, has seen a sharp rise in femicide, killings motivated by gender.


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