Tag - Iraq

Dayasurabhi Balaji | Sep 15 2008
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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,...
Bijoy Ranjan Dey | Sep 15 2008
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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...
Pooja | Sep 14 2008
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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...
Balbhadra Rana | Sep 13 2008
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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...
Arpita Mukherjee | Sep 10 2008
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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...
Subhasis Chattopadhyay | Sep 9 2008
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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...
Mandira S | Sep 27 2007
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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.
Swati S | Aug 15 2007
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"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...
Pooja | May 19 2007
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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...
Pooja | May 10 2007
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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...

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