Yanar mohammed biography

Iraqi feminist

Yanar Mohammed (Arabic: ينار محمد; born 1960) is a prominent Iraqi feminist who was born in Baghdad.

Yanar mohammed biography

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.

Biography

Mohammed was born in Baghdad, Iraq. She was raised and lived in the city within a liberal family where her mother was a school teacher and her father was an engineer.

Her grandfather on her mother's side was religious, and a prominent man in his community who "definitely deserved the honorary title of Mullah", except that he married his ex-wife's fourteen-year-old younger sister, which first spurred Yanar Mohammed to take up the cause of women's righ