In our ongoing coverage, support of, and solidarity with the thousands of Yazidi women and girls sold and captured as sex slaves. We continue to call for the immediate release of the captured 3,000 women. Photojournalist Paula Allen and filmmaker Taylor Krauss traveled to Kurdistan in November/December 2016 and visited…

Yanar Mohammed is the founder of Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), an organization fighting to stop atrocities against women and advocate for women’s social, political and economic rights, and a V-Day/ One Billion Rising activist. She shared the following message about the recent bombing in Baghdad: “There are no words…

Yanar Mohammed, President and co-founder of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), released this statement and urgent call to action in response to the thousands of Iraqi children born with serious birth defects caused by the humanitarian crisis created by the US military when they withdrew, and is…