A lawyer from Baghdad, Manal Yunis joined the Ba'ath Party in 1962. In 1969 she helped found the General Federation of Iraqi Women (GFIW), and she served in several different Ba'ath Party posts.

Saddam Hussein appointed her to head the GFIW in 1979. After Saddam was toppled from power, she was rumoured to have fled Iraq in August 2003.

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