https://padlet.com/charlotte_dogherty/s44uqtd0le3p en-us 2018-03-16 12:50:06 UTC 2025-11-17 22:08:51 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/charlotte_dogherty/s44uqtd0le3p/wish/244421665 - Highest rates of illiteracy in the region (18-20% of population)
- 24.6% of women being illiterate
- Limited levels of available education, especially in rural areas (50% of women are illiterate)
- 10.1 years of mean schooling]]> 2018-03-21 09:41:49 UTC https://padlet.com/charlotte_dogherty/s44uqtd0le3p/wish/244421665 https://padlet.com/charlotte_dogherty/s44uqtd0le3p/wish/244421717 - Iraq ranks 120 out of 148 countries
- No law criminalising domestic violence - Article 41 of the Penal Code (1969) a husband has the legal right to punish his wife
- Sharia Law , means that less money is inherited by women (daughters typically inherit ½ as much as sons)
- HRW reports that many Iraqi women, widowed by the conflict, violence or displacement, are vulnerable to trafficking for sexual exploitation and prostitution
- Women's rights activists says they are at risk of attack from extremists, who also target female politicians, civil servants, and journalists
- So-called honour crimes and domestic abuse are also reported to remain a threat to women and girls
- Women are considered to be adults over the age of 18 (same as men), this differs from neighbouring countries where women are considered adults when under the protection of a male guardian
- Legal marriage age for male & females is 18
- Women & men don’t have equal parental responsibility, as under the Personal Status Law the father is the legal guardian of the child
- As of 2013, women held 25.2% of seats in parliament]]> 2018-03-21 09:42:00 UTC https://padlet.com/charlotte_dogherty/s44uqtd0le3p/wish/244421717 https://padlet.com/charlotte_dogherty/s44uqtd0le3p/wish/244421792 - Human Rights Watch also interviewed two journalists detained for covering similar protests, in the towns of Koy Sanjaq and Halabja
- Kurdistan Regional Government security forces detained participants in December 2017 protests around Sulaymaniyah and forced them to sign statements promising not to criticize the government]]> 2018-03-21 09:42:13 UTC https://padlet.com/charlotte_dogherty/s44uqtd0le3p/wish/244421792 https://padlet.com/charlotte_dogherty/s44uqtd0le3p/wish/244421954 - Total GDP of US$125
- Iraq is the 3rd largest oil exporter behind Saudi Arabia and Russia
- One of the main obstacles behind Iraq’s further development is the lack of electricity, due to damage through the Gulf War, the average household has just 8 hours of electricity per day
- Since 2003, the number of privately owned cars has fallen (43% to 35 %in 2011) while the  number of people owning a motorbike or bicycle has risen

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69.59 years]]> 2018-03-21 09:42:57 UTC https://padlet.com/charlotte_dogherty/s44uqtd0le3p/wish/244422060 https://padlet.com/charlotte_dogherty/s44uqtd0le3p/wish/244422896 - Life expectancy at birth has increased from an average of 58.8 years (2000) to 69.9 years (2005)
- Life expectancy is still lower than Algeria which is 73.4 years
- Malnutrition has fallen from 7.1% (2007) to 5.7% (2011), though this is still 1.9 million people
- 45% of health professionals have fled
- 14 hospitals (25%) have been damaged / destroyed
- 2 cases of polio (2014)
- 1 measles case in 2014, but in 2015 over 800 cases of measles]]> 2018-03-21 09:45:32 UTC https://padlet.com/charlotte_dogherty/s44uqtd0le3p/wish/244422896 https://padlet.com/charlotte_dogherty/s44uqtd0le3p/wish/244430821

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