Women with skin ripped from their bones after setting themselves on fire are being admitted to a specialist hospital in Iraqi Kurdistan as the country experiences a surge in rates of gender-based violence.
War-torn and economically crippled Iraq suffers one of the highest rates of domestic abuse in the world, with the self-governing region of Kurdistan to the north also experiencing a surge in violence against women.
Two years after setting herself alight, Jenan, whose real name has been withheld for her safety, is still bound to a hospital bed where medics tend to the festering wounds lying beneath a suit of bandages.
