Gorilla’s Guides

For the fifth anniversary of the US/British-led invasion of Iraq, the Guardian’s award-winning foreign correspondent Ghaith Abdul-Ahad has teamed up with ITV News to bring us a series of extraordinary films for the ITV News and guardian.co.uk. In these unprecedented films he, as an Iraqi, goes where foreign journalists can no long go - to […]

Posted on March 19th, 2008 under Children, Human Rights, Iraq, Politics and Security, Society And Economy, Video Reports, War Crimes, Women and Children. Tags: Baghdad, Child Exploitation, Child Poverty, Child Prostitution, Children, Children - selling of, Death Squads, Health, Poverty, Surge Failure. Comments: 6

The numbers are alarming there is an increase of 20 percent in the reported cases of missing children over a year.

Like most Iraqi children now, Qusay has grown used to being in need.

Ali is deprived of just about everything in childhood; he has no place to play, or things to play with. And he has […]

Posted on March 11th, 2008 under Children, Features, Iraq, Society And Economy, Women and Children. Tags: Baquba, Baqubah, Child Exploitation, Child Kidnappings, Child Poverty, Child Prostitution, Child Smuggling, Children, Children - selling of, Diyala, IPS, IPS Reports, Poverty, UNHCR, UNICEF, Water Crisis (Iraq). Comments: 2