News Center-Women's Legal Assistance Organization (WOLA), an independent non-profit organization established to provide legal support to women in Iraq and Federal Kurdistan Region, has released the results of its research on femicides and suspicious deaths of women in the Federal Kurdistan Region.

According to the report of the WOLA, the main cause of femicides and suspicious deaths of women in the Federal Kurdistan Region is “child marriage”. Five women were killed in the town of Koye, Erbil Governorate in Kurdistan Region and three of the killed women had been forced into child marriage, the report says.

WOLA shared the results of its research on its social media account under the hashtag #Na ji zewaca temenê biçuk re (No to child marriage).