Yanar Mohammed

Yanar Mohammed (Arabic: ينار محمد; 1960 – 2 March 2026) was an Iraqi feminist and women's rights activist. She was a co-founder and the director of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), and served as the editor of the newspaper Al-Mousawat (Equality). Mohammed started the first shelters for women in Iraq in 2003, protecting them from honor killing and sex trafficking, a network that had expanded to 11 houses in five cities by 2018. Between 2003 and 2019, her shelters served more... source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanar_Mohammed