Tag - iraqi women
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...
During the war we lost everything.We even lost our honor.
says Umm Hiba , an Iraqi women in Damuscus and daughter of a teenage daughter who dances at nightclubs and is a prostitute. It is the story of many such Iraqi women who were forced to flee...
On eleventh of December, UNICEF's Iraq Office said that Iraqi women need imperative action to defend and uphold their rights.
Iraq is a society that has traditionally celebrated and empowered women. However, today's Iraqi women and girls are living...
Iraqi men and women praying (Reuters)
In a move to spread the 'message of peace', a number of Iraqi men and women gathered at a Roman Catholic Church for a Sunday mass in Baghdad.
The gathering was organized to convey to all across the world...
Leading Muslim reporter, Late Atwar Bahjat
Unity is almost a non-existent phenomenon in Iraq for quite a long time now. The bygone days are no longer making a come back that's what most of the Iraqi women has to say.
Trying to rediscover a...
No one outside the prison knows what it feels to be confined within the world's most notorious prison Abu Gharib. The media all the time comes up with sources reporting about the rape of the Iraqi women detainees inside the jail but we have not seen...
Iraqi women burnt alive
Iraq as a nation might have won its freedom three years ago but the plight of women has not changed with the changing times.
Due to the powerful political intervention of its neighboring country Iran, Iraq has not progressed...
Life for Iraqi women is deteriorating day by day with the incessant pressure forced down their throat by the radical Islamist parties of Iraq.
Already, they are suffering too much under the age-old hierarchy of patriarchal society, but now with the...
With the increasing influence of the Fundamentalist Islamists in Iraq, the discrimination of the Iraqi women has taken a bitter U Turn. Despite many of the daring women rights activists trying to safeguard the women community, the situation is...
With the ongoing Israel-Lebanon conflict becoming dangerous every moment, most of the channels are daily trying to give regular updates from the war-afflicted areas.
There is a new face of the Arab and the Iraqi women, which the world is getting a...
Unlike, the parlours in Kashmir and Qatar, those in Sulaimaniyah city are steadily gaining more popularity with no Taliban and Islamist terror group to threaten them.
In the country of Iraq, so far until date, Sulaimaniyah is known for its secured life...
The mutilation and rape of a young Iraqi girl has kicked off controversy amongst the Muslim religious groups.
This is not the only case of sexual molestation by the US army; previously there have been many other incidents where Iraqi women repeatedly...
No one has the courage to speak up against the continuous attack that the Iraqi women are subjected to today.
Freedom in the contemporary world seems to be a far-fetched dream for the Iraqi women. Every single moment they are living in fear of being...
Life is now a living hell for the women community in Iraq with the latest announcement made by the Al Qaeda head of Iraq.
A new set of rules has been laid down, which the Iraqi women have to conform too or else they will face the wrath of the black men...
Baghdad witnessed a very unusual demonstration all led, mostly by Iraqi women around 200 in numbers who came down to the streets and marched all the way to Green Zone demanding immediate action for stopping attacks.
All these women mostly from the...
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