Gorilla’s Guides

No one is safe from US abuse in Iraq

US soldiers abuse Iraq German embassy guards German diplomats obtain financial compensation for abused Iraqis, but receive no apology from US. BERLIN - US soldiers abused Iraqis guarding the German embassy in Baghdad, according to a press report quoting a confidential report from the embassy. The weekly ...

نساء البصرة نسين عيدهن بسبب ما يتعرضن له من تضييق

اندهشت حبيبة حينما طرق الباب احد معارفها المقربين وقدم لها مبتسما وردة حمراء وقال (أيامج سعيدة) فردت متعجبة شكرا ولكن أي عيد تقصد؟ لقدغادرتنا الأعياد منذ عقود ..وفكرت مليا ...وتذكرت أنه الثامن من آذار وبعد أن ترقرقت الدموع في عينيها قالت شكرا شكرا وهزت رأسها مبتئسة. وأجابت "من اين ...

The Future of Kirkuk: The Referendum and Its Potential Impact on Displacement

Onlookers watched and waited as the deadline for a Kirkuk referendum passed on December 31, 2007. Often described as the next “powder keg” in Iraq, the issue of Kirkuk’s status has gripped the nation, its neighbors, and the international community. Kirkuk is the most hotly-contested of Iraq’s disputed territories, ...

Heroines - the daily life of Iraq’s war widows

Eighty-two percent of the 2.4 million people displaced inside Iraq are women and young children under the age of 12. Many mothers have lost their husbands in the sectarian violence that has torn the nation apart. But in the face of adversity, they are proving to be true heroines. ...

اتساع ظاهرة القتل حرقا والانتحار وختان النساء في العراق

حذرت مسؤولة نسوية من خطورة استمرار الحالة المتردية التي تعيشها المرأة في العراق خصوصا ما يتعلق باتساع ظاهرة القتل حرقا والانتحار وختان الاعضاء التناسلية في بعض المناطق. وقالت وزيرة شؤون المرأة بالوكالة نرمين عثمان ان ظاهرة انتحار الفتيات حرقا في اقليم كردستان سببها ان القانون والتغييرات الفكرية لم تكن ...

IRAQ: Where Happiness Has Gone

"The majority of diseases I am seeing have moral and psychological causes. For over three years now we have had thousands of cases of sudden death; due often to thrombus or angina pectoris, among young and old people alike. We never saw anything like this until the Americans ...