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Human Rights Watch have called on Baghdad to make changes to anti-violence laws, which would protect Iraqi women from domestic abuse and punish offenders.
The walls of Um al-Mauna Church in Iraq's west Mosul were plastered with IS propaganda before it was recaptured by Iraqi troops this week.
![Sabra Shatila [Getty]](/sites/default/files/styles/large_16_9/public/media/images/79D6389C-2C58-4A11-B7E2-DBB1E5C2F3D3.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=BH3FchcC "Sabra Shatila [Getty]")
A renowned Iraqi artist's work depicting the devastating massacre of thousands of Palestinians in Lebanon is being transformed into a tapestry to be displayed alongside Picasso's Guernica.
![Fallujah school [Getty]](/sites/default/files/styles/large_16_9/public/media/images/A6E658F4-61C5-46CB-96C6-31CDC15470DA.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=ejWTRJDJ "Fallujah school [Getty]")
Homes, schools, hospitals and businesses were flattened as Iraqi forces fought to liberate Fallujah from IS. Now life is getting back to normal, at least for schoolchildren, as residents return.
Mosul's mechanics say they are indispensable in the fight against the Islamic State group, as they repair between 15 to 20 damaged armoured vehicles a day.
![Nadia Murad [Getty]](/sites/default/files/styles/large_16_9/public/media/images/1B4BEA40-E459-4B53-B76B-4F851B08FC19.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=Q2YlY-Is "Nadia Murad [Getty]")
Nadia Murad and Lamiya Aji Bashar both escaped sexual enslavement at the hands of Islamic State fighters and have since campaigned to hold her people's captors accountable for their crimes
Former residents of the Iraqi city of Mosul say that Islamic State has executed anyone caught communicating with people outside or talking about the situation outside the IS-held city.
![Ramadi Iraq refugees Islamic State [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/large_16_9/public/media/images/DCCA5A0A-D7E6-409C-96BF-CAF99FD47320.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=Ahv8gZ-o "Ramadi Iraq refugees Islamic State [AFP]")
A UN chief said "nothing is more important" than the protection of civilians as Iraqi forces begin their battle to liberate Mosul from Islamic State control.
Less than nine percent of the total number of refugees around the globe were taken in by the six wealthiest nations, in stark comparison to the world's poorest countries.
While the Islamic State group destroy Syria and Iraq's cultural heritage, UN cultural figures are meeting in Turkey to look at how to protect other sites from war damage.