Her trip to the West Bank, where she was shot on Friday, was Ms. Eygi’s latest effort in a years-long activism that began nearly a decade ago when she was still a teenager.
The country's brutal civil war has led to the killing, rape and torture of civilians, including children, and threatens to destabilize neighboring countries.
For years, a United Nations team has been carefully exhuming mass graves, but now the Iraqi government has ordered them to leave. Many sites remain unexplored.
The choice of a right-wing politician as president, after an extraordinary delay, can only inflame the left-wing opponents, who emerged victorious from inconclusive elections.