Post Saddam Hussain's hanging, things haven’t changed much and a new phenomenon is grappling Iraq, with a new trend emerging with the rise in the number of widows. One such widow is Suad Rzuki Aboud who lost her husband, three sons and a...
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Iraq has been in the news ever since 2001. With the country being in the state of a perpetual war, women and children suffer the most, both, in social and economic aspects. Amidst such a climate, the atmosphere in Iraq is not very friendly,...
Do not compare the Burkha clad policewomen of Iraq with their counterparts in non-Islamic countries. The gender discrimination is more astounding in this country. After the US forces took over Iraq, a recruitment drive was undertaken by the Iraqi...
President Bush had made the claim after US forces overran Iraq in 2003 that Iraqi women were now free and had a bright future. But seeing their condition in the country today one is forced to say the opposite is true.
During Saddam Hussain's time...
Though women are cattle for some men, these latter are constantly disturbed and agitated by mere cows. So when I hear of Iraqi terrorists insisting on killing Christian women if they do not cover their faces in Basra University, I wonder about whom...
What would a woman get if she dares to hold a professional job? Abduction, rape and murder, yes this is what she would receive at least in Iraq!
Religious extremists in the southern Iraqi city of Basra are busy slaughtering the women folk who...
Despite becoming victims of permanent threat of shooting, bomb attacks, kidnappings and rape...how a group of Muslim women in Iraq could even think to kill another group of Muslim women? But this is a harsh reality and slowly becoming common practice...
"The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity", said Mohandas Gandhi.
When we come to think of sex trade-we usually end up thinking it as a trade which women follow as a shortcut to wealth and other means. However, the women of Iraq...
A gruesome incident, which led to the death of a teen in north of Iraq created a widespread condemnation. It was able to gather attention of international media because of the footage.
Now authorities in the region have detained four people with...
Samar Saed Abdullah a 25 year old woman suffering in the al-Kadhimiya Women's Prison in Baghdad and is ‘living’ here for the past two years, would go to the gallows by next Wednesday, why? Well, for a crime which she wasn’t even a part of!
Her...
Clouds of sectarian violence could be anticipated between Muslims and Yazidis in Kurdistan Region.
The killing of young girl Du'a Khalil Aswad has ignited sparks in the Province. It’s bad enough that this woman’s male family members murdered her....
Women and girls in Iraq live in constant fear of violence as the conflict intensifies and insecurity spirals. Within their own communities, many women and girls remain at risk of death or injury from male relatives if they are accused of behavior held...
It seems that honor killing is a deep-seated tradition in Muslim countries. It is a kind of manacle that has been created by man to restrict the over all progress of women.
How often we have read the outcome of this weird custom, which has...
The three Iraqi women will not be executed until an appeals court has ruled on their cases.
Wassan Talib, Zainab Fadhil and Liqa Omar Muhammad were accused of participating in the resistance against the U.S. occupation of Iraq and sentenced to death...
A victim of rape in Iraq has tried to go against the social custom of suffering mutely but instead has jeopardized her life. She has openly condemned the Iraqi police of sexually molesting her.
This is not the first time a criminal case has been...
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Sharon Chadha has written for various publications, including RUSI Journal, the publication of the Royal United Services Institute, the world’s oldest security and defense think tank in London.
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