The first is about widows.
Accurate figures are hard to obtain, but even before the invasion in 2003, there were hundreds of thousands of widows in Iraq.
Many lost husbands in the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s. At the height of the violence of recent years, up to 100 women a day were becoming widows.
Almost everywhere you go in Baghdad, you can see them begging at traffic lights and outside mosques - dressed from head to toe in black.
The women are supposed to be given just over $1 (£0.70) a day from the government.
But a survey by the charity Oxfam has discovered that less than a quarter actually get the money.
The second , more general reports the results of a survey of 1700 women, who lack security and basic services.
Reporting on a survey of about 1,700 women in five provinces taken last year, Oxfam described their plight as a "silent emergency".
It suggested more than half the women had suffered from violence.
A quarter did not have daily access to water supplies, and more than three-quarters were not getting pensions.
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