OnSpec/Pandemic • Surviving as a Woman

Women in Iraq face an uphill battle against rising domestic violence during the pandemic. Photo by David Mark for Pixabay.

Men are beating and killing the women they know in a shadow pandemic that’s seeing a startling increase in domestic violence numbers during quarantine across the globe. Journalist Menel Raach tells the story of a Syrian Kurdish woman in Iraq running from her ex-husband amid lockdown in a refugee camp.