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نكبة أطفال العراق

مناهج الحرية والديمقراطية .... المدمرة أكثر من 6000 طفل عراقي تعرضوا للأعتقال والتعذيب والأغتصاب والأمتهان الجسدي من قبل قوات الإحتلال والقوات الحكومية . حسب التقارير الصادرة من منظمة اليونيسيف و اللجنة الدولية للصليب الاحمر. لقد توقف الباحثون والمنظمات الدولية العاملة تحت مظلة الامم المتحدة والمدافعين عن حقوق الإنسان ...


Barbaric ‘honour killings’ become the weapon to subjugate women in Iraq

"In the past five years it is has got [much] worse. It is difficult to described how terrible it is, how badly we have been pushed back to the dark ages. Women are being beheaded for taking their veil off. Self immolation is rising – women are left with ...


Carnage and Despair | بين المجازر واليأس

INTRODUCTION Five years after the US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussain, Iraq is one of the most dangerous countries in the world. Hundreds of people are being killed every month in the pervasive violence, while countless lives are threatened every day by poverty, cuts to power and water supplies, ...


العراق: الناشطون يتحدثون عن تعرض الأطفال السجناء لسوء المعاملة والتعذيب

  أعربت المنظمات غير الحكومية في العراق عن قلقها حيال وضع الأطفال في السجون المحلية، مشيرة إلى أنهم يتعرضون للإساءة والتعذيب خلال التحقيقات التي تُجرى معهم. وقال خالد ربيعة، الناطق باسم جمعية العدالة للسجناء: "يتم التعامل مع الأطفال داخل السجون العراقية كأنهم راشدون. وقد ...


IRAQ: Child prisoners abused and tortured, say activists

BAGHDAD, 25 October 2007 (IRIN) - Iraqi NGOs have raised concerns about the condition of children in local prisons, saying they are abused and tortured during interrogation. Photo: Children are victims of abuse in Iraqi prisons. "Our investigation started after families brought their ...


This Is What America Spends $3,850 Every Second To Achieve

But first two figures: Aug 1 (Reuters) - Here are two sets of figures about the cost of the war in Iraq and the U.S. contribution to the United Nations refugee agency, the UNHCR. $10 billion a month -- the cost of the war in Iraq to ...


Uprooted Iraqis move into "atrocious" camps - UN

GENEVA, June 15 (Reuters) - People fleeing violence in Iraq have begun to move into atrocious makeshift camps on the fringes of cities such as Najaf, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday. Andrew Harper, coordinator of the UNHCR's Iraq Support Unit, said the sites were a result ...


IRAQ: Mahmoud Rafid, Iraq, “I have to keep working despite being sexually abused”

BAGHDAD, Mahmoud Rafid, 13, says he is afraid to go on selling goods on the streets of Baghdad, after being sexually harassed and abused. Photo: Afif Sarhan/IRIN  Mahmoud Rafid, 13, says he is afraid to go on selling goods on the streets of Baghdad after being ...


IRAQ: Cancer emerges as major cause of death in south

BASRA, 31 May 2007 (IRIN) - Recent studies by medical colleges, and statistics from local morgues and hospitals, have shown a higher than expected number of cancer-related deaths in Iraq's southern provinces. According to specialists, the main causes are the increased use of unsafe products in agriculture and the long-term ...


Ahmed Qassim Hamza and Mohammed Qassim Hamza.

These two children are Ahmed Qassim Hamza and Mohammed Qassim Hamza. Ahmed is the boy on the left has the age of 9. His brother Mohammed is 11. They are not much older than the children I teach in our school in the refugee camp that I and my children ...



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Improvised bowling game Sadr City October 2nd 2008

Children playing Sadr City October 2nd 2008