SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq - Medics in Iraqi Kurdistan said on Saturday that they had seen a surge in violence against women in May, with both so-called "honour" killings and female suicide on the increase. "At least 14 women died in the first 10 days of May alone," a doctor said ...
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 ...
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"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 ...
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The women of Iraq have disappeared. Five years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, women's secular freedoms - once the envy of women across the Middle East - have been snatched away because militant Islam is rising across the country. Across Iraq, a bloody and relentless oppression of ...
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في عام 2003، أُجبِرت هبة (ليس اسمها الحقيقي)، التي كان عمرها حينئذ لا يتجاوز 11 عاماً، على الزواج من قريبها. وفي اليوم التالي تم نقلها من بغداد إلى الحدود مع سوريا وبيعت لتجار الجنس. وفي دمشق، أجبرت على الرقص في النوادي الليلية والمنازل الخاصة، وبعد أربع سنوات من ذلك، ...
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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, ...
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كما في كل مرة انكبت (أنوار فاضل) على فراشها باكية بعد شجار مع زوجها كانت خاتمته " التقليدية " هي الضرب ،بينما غادر الزوج المنزل كعادته تاركا زوجته تعيش ماساتها المتكررة. تزوجت أنوار منذ عام ونصف "كنت اتصور اني ساعيش سعيدة مع زوجي، لكنني صدمت بحياة يسودها عنف ...
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Each month there is at least one assassination or kidnapping for ransom, or an assault on a doctor or his family, and we don’t know the reason or who is behind this, and the most regrettable thing is that the government is doing nothing to investigate any of ...
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كشف وزير العمل والشؤون الاجتماعية محمود الشيخ راضي عن ارتفاع غير مسبوق بنسبة حالات الطلاق في المجتمع العراقي لتتراوح ما بين 50 الى 60 في المائة من الزيجات. ودعا راضي في الاحتفالية التي اقامتها الوزارة في مركز التدريب المهني العراقي- الكوري امس الأحد بمناسبة يوم المرأة العالمي الى ...
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 ...
