Due to sharp increase of violence against women in Iraqi Kurdistan, the Regional Government has opened a women's centre in City of Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.
According to report issued recently by the Regional Ministry of Human Rights in Iraqi Kurdistan Territory in April (April) 2007 state that 533 women tried to commit suicides in 2006. The report showed that «the number of women suicide or killed in 2005 was 289 women, but it rose to 533 women in 2006 and increased the suicide rate among the victims of 22% in 2005 to 88% in 2006, as the percentage of murders from 4% in 2005 to 6.34 % in 2006 ». The report pointed out that «the majority of women who are subjected to violence between the ages of 13 and 18 years». The report identified the types of violence against women «beatings, sexual assault and death threats and defamation, forced marriage and abduction».