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Mother of three sets fire to herself in desperate bid escape an abusive marriage.

For three days, I thought about a way to end my life. Eventually, I decided that I must set myself on fire. It was an easier choice. And I remember when I was a kid one of our neighbours set herself […]

Posted on June 24th, 2008 under Iraq, Society And Economy, Women and Children. Tags: IWPR, Sulaymaniyah, Women - domestic assault, Women - suicides, Women and Children, Women's Rights. Comments: None

A dark pool of dried blood and a fallen red scarf mark the place where Ronak, who had fled to a woman’s shelter in the Kurdish city of Sulaymaniyah when she was accused of adultery by her husband, was shot three times by a man hiding on the roof of a nearby building.

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Posted on May 17th, 2008 under Features, Human Rights, Iraq, Women and Children. Tags: Cockburn - Patrick, Disputed Areas, Kirkuk, KRG, Sulaymaniyah, Women - attacks on, Women - domestic assault, Women - killing of, Women - suicides, Women's Rights. Comments: 1

“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 no choice. There is no government […]

Posted on April 28th, 2008 under Human Rights, Humour, Women and Children. Tags: Child Exploitation, Child Rape, Disputed Areas, Human Rights, Khanaqin, Kirkuk, KRG, Militias, Mosul, Rape, Sulaymaniyah, Women - "Honour" Killings, Women - attacks on, Women - domestic assault, Women - genital mutilation of, Women - killing of, Women - suicides, Women - trafficking in, Women's Rights. Comments: 1

قالت الممثلة الخاصة للأمين العام للامم المتحدة لشؤون الأطفال والنزاعات المسلحة السيدة راديكا كوماراسوامي ،الجمعة ، ان أطفال العراق هم الضحايا الصامتون للعنف الدائرفي البلاد وان 50% فقط من طلاّب المدارس الإبتدائية يرتادون المدارس.
ونقل بيان لمكتب الممثل الخاص للأمين العام لشؤون الأطفال والنزاعات المسلحة ، تلقت الوكالة المستقلة للانباء ( أصوات العراق) نسخة […]

Posted on April 26th, 2008 under Children, Cholera, Human Rights, Iraq, Women and Children. Tags: Child Exploitation, Child Poverty, Children, Education Crisis (Iraq), Human Rights, IDPs (Internal Refugees), Militias, Refugees, UNHCR, UNICEF, Water Borne Disease, Water Crisis (Iraq), WFP, WHO, Women - domestic assault, Women and Children, الكوليرا. Comments: None