| Death Of A Kurdish Woman | |
| Birth Date: | 1973 |
| Death Place: | Kirkuk |
| Spouse: | Bakir Al Shaly |
| Children: | two boys |
| Occupation: | Activist |
| Death Cause: | Killed by gunmen |
| Affiliation: | Communist Party of Kurdistan |
| Principal Ideas: | Women rights during Saddam period |
| Major Works: | Political activist |
| Influenced: | Many kurdish women and many people |
Nahla Hussain al-Shaly (ar|نهلة حسين الشالي, b. 1973– December 18, 2008) was a promoter of women's rights in Iraqi Kurdistan, and the leader of the Kurdistan Women's League, the women's wing of the Kurdistan Communist Party. On December 18, 2008, she was shot and decapitated after gunmen stormed her home in Kirkuk. Hussain, a married mother of two, is killed as she was 35 at the time, her children were 10 and 9 during that period. .[1] [2]