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Yanar Mohammed

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Date of birth
1960
Place of birth
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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Goodreads Author ID
13506890
LibraryThing Author
mohammedyanar
OpenLibrary Author ID
OL14041105A
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5890147665830260670007
11148035996287971376
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Q3571521

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