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killings, led ongoing activities against trafficking of young women, ran classes to teach women activists how to confront intolerance, advocated equality for women on Iraqi radio and television. Mohammed also interviewed and assisted about 30 women held in prison. Following those interviews, one person was saved from a death sentence while many a few were saved from re-entering sex-trafficking circles. Mohammed's work in the
Organization for Women's Freedom in Iraq established a network of women's shelter in 4 cities around Iraq, where more than 870 women regained their well-being and dignity throughout 16 years (2003-2019). During her work on this group, Mohammed was awarded the Gruber Foundation Women's Rights Prize in 2008 and Norway's Rafto Prize in 2016. In 2018, she was listed as one of
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204:, sent two death threats to Yanar Mohammed in 2004. These were quoted as being directly related to her efforts to achieve gender equality within the Iraqi society. After many years of being vocal about protection and rights of women, the threats subsided, and her organization and shelters are considered the sole safe place for jeopardized women in Iraq. Her organization, the Organization for Women's Freedom in Iraq, started classes on feminist theory and are gradually expanding into a Feminist School .
119:. 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 rights.
148:, Mohammed returned to Baghdad, a return which she funded by a lifetime of savings and work in Architecture . Upon her return to Iraq, Mohammed founded a group to promote the rights of women in post-Saddam Iraq, the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq after she had founded a women's group previously in Canada under the name the Defence of Iraqi Women’s Rights. She also edited the feminist newsletter
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