Celebrate Diva Birthdays This January

In January, Iraq passed an amendment to its personal status law, which allows citizens to choose sect-specific religious courts to oversee their marriage affairs. ⁠ ⁠ Campaigners say that an amendment to the country’s personal status law is creating a black market in vulnerable girls.⁠ ⁠ But a group of Iraq’s most prominent female lawyers, journalists and activists, known as Coalition 188, has spent the past year attempting to combat and reverse the law, as well as other loopholes created by the