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Are emergency rooms safe? Some may not be for its doctors and nurses. A recent global survey of health care workers found that 73 percent of workers in critical care report experiencing violence in the past year, and a quarter of them are willing to leave their jobs because of it. In a new Opinion Video, hospital staff argue violent attacks at work are keeping them from doing the job they love. “I’m here to care for you, not to be your punching bag,” Amal Hussein, a hospital employee, said. | 🎥

In January, Iraq passed an amendment to its personal status law, which allows citizens to choose sect-specific religious courts to oversee their marriage affairs. ⁠ ⁠ Campaigners say that an amendment to the country’s personal status law is creating a black market in vulnerable girls.⁠ ⁠ But a group of Iraq’s most prominent female lawyers, journalists and activists, known as Coalition 188, has spent the past year attempting to combat and reverse the law, as well as other loopholes created by the