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Human Rights Watch: Iraq - Prominent Women's Rights Activist Assassinated
March 12, 2026
NEW YORK, March 12 [Category: International] -- Human Rights Watch posted the following news:

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Iraq: Prominent Women's Rights Activist Assassinated

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(Beirut) - A prominent Iraqi women's rights activist was gunned down outside her Baghdad home by two men on motorcycles on March 2, 2026, Human Rights Watch said today.

Yanar Mohammed, 65, co-founded the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq in 2003. She opened . . .

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