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• How Cell Phones Have Fueled a Frenzy of "Honor" Killings in Iraq. Alternet, 21 May 2008. A dark pool of dried blood and a fallen red scarf mark the place where Ronak, who had fled to a woman's shelter in the Kurdish city of Sulaymaniyah when she was accused of adultery by her husband, was shot three times by a man hiding on the roof of a nearby building.
• Rape scandal hits foreign contractors in Iraq. Sydney Morning Herald, 10 April 2008. A woman who says she was raped while working for a foreign contractor in Iraq detailed the experience in a congressional hearing as another woman who made similar allegations before Congress last year listened and fought back tears.
  
• Nazand Begikhani: A women’s rights activist discusses honour-based crimes. Kurdistan Regional Government, 12 March 2008. Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani has led the KRG’s drive to tackle honour killings by calling for changes in the law, open debate, training and education, and greater support from government, religious and social leaders, the media and civil society organisations.
• Violence Against Women in War Zones. New York Times, Letters, 22 February 2008. Contractors working for the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan are getting what amounts to a get-out-of-jail-free card for crimes, including murders and rapes.
  
• US soldier accused of raping and killing 14-year-old Iraqi wants more time to prepare defense. International Herald Tribune, 13 December 2007. A federal judge requested one week to issue a ruling on a trial date for a former soldier accused of raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and killing her and her family.

• Gender-Based Violence in Iraq: The Effects Of Violence – Real And Perceived – On The Lives Of Women, Girls, Men And Boys In Iraq, Inter-agency Information and Analysis Unit. 2008
• Iraqi Refugee Women and Youth in Jordan: Reproductive Health Findings: A snapshot from the field, Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children, 2007
• Iraq Family Health Survey 2006/7, Ministry of Health / Iraq, Central Organization for Statistics & Information Technology, Ministry of Health/Kurdistan, Kurdistan Regional Statistics Office, World Health Organisation, 2007/8
  
• Promising Democracy, Imposing Theocracy: Gender-Based Violence and the US War on Iraq, MADRE, January 2007
• Widowhood In Iraq: A Neglected Gender Issue, Widows For Peace Through Democracy, 2007
• Promising Democracy, Imposing Theocracy: Gender-Based Violence and the US War on Iraq, MADRE, 2007
• Climate of fear: sexual violence and abduction of women and girls in Baghdad, 15 (7), Human Rights Watch, 2003
• Climate of Fear: Sexual Violence and Abduction of Women and Girls in Baghdad, Human Rights Watch, 2003

• Human right abuses and concerns about women's health and human rights in southern Iraq. Amowitz L.L, Kim G., Reis C., Asher J. L. and lacopino V, 291(12):147179, 2004

• Iraq: Insecurity and Violence Against Women, VAWNet