The UN Economic Sanctions on Iraq represent a distinct case in terms of their differential and gender-specific implications. The study's objectives have been to investigate the impacts of these sanctions on the lives of ordinary Iraqi women and how these sanctions changed their lives. Through an exhaustive content analysis of data from Iraqi women's interviews, archives, and governmental and non-governmental sources, the study concludes that the impacts of these economic sanctions have been twofold: the physical and the psychological impacts. As a result, the suffering the Iraqi women endured along with the rest of the Iraqi society has underscored the importance of renewed thinking on the mechanism of these coercive sanctions in light of the challenges they pose to the basic human rights of the target communities.