Sulaimaniyah, Iraq (AFP) March 20, 2022

A woman burned alive by her husband, others shot dead by a father or a teenage brother – bloody violence against women has spiked in northern Iraq’s Kurdish region.

The autonomous area, keen on projecting an image of a relative haven of stability and tolerance in war-battered Iraq, has seen a sharp rise in femicide, killings motivated by gender.

“In the past two months, there has been a
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