Yanar Mohammed
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- 1960
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- Baghdad
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Yanar Mohammed (Arabic: ينار محمد; born 1960) is a prominent Iraqi feminist who was born in Baghdad. She is a co-founder and the director of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq, and serves as the editor of the newspaper Al-Mousawat (Equality). She started the first shelters for women in Iraq since 2003, protecting them from "honor killing" and sex-trafficking, a network that expanded to 11 houses in 5 cities in 2018. Her shelters saved hundreds of vulnerable women in 16 years.
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Yanar Mohammed is a prominent Iraqi feminist who was born in Baghdad. She is a co-founder and president of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq/Kirkuk (OWFI). In 1998, she also established the Defense of Iraqi Women's Rights (DIWR).
Yanar Mohammed received the Gruber Foundation Women’s Rights Prize in 2008.Last modified: 2024-08-25 (revision #197652)
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