FEMALE TRAFFICKING SOARS IN IRAQ
"... Before the Gulf War in 1991, Iraq enjoyed the highest female literacy rate across the Middle East, and more Iraqi women were employed in skilled professions, like medicine and education, than in any other country in the region... Twenty years later Iraqi women experience a very different reality... Prostitution and sex trafficking are epidemic in Iraq, where the violence of military occupation and sectarian strife have smashed national institutions, impoverished the population and torn apart families and neighbourhoods... Most of Iraq’s sex traffickers are predominantly female, running squalid brothels in neighbourhoods like the decrepit Al-Battaween district in central Baghdad.,, Iraq has a whole generation of women who are in their teens now, whose bodies have been turned into battlefields from criminal ideologies..."
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=104911
Monday, August 22, 2011
IRAQ NOT A DEMOCRACY
"... members of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq... and other protesters were brutally beaten and sexually assaulted in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square on June 10 by government-sponsored mobs. What were they demonstrating for that so threatened Iraq’s government? Democracy... In the top U.S. newspapers... they didn’t even use the word “democracy” in their reports; both simply called participants “anti-government protesters”...
"Given the lack of freedom and access to political participation, and the repression facing protesters, how significant are the distinctions between Iraq’s “democracy” and its “authoritarian” neighbors?... "
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/03-6
"... members of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq... and other protesters were brutally beaten and sexually assaulted in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square on June 10 by government-sponsored mobs. What were they demonstrating for that so threatened Iraq’s government? Democracy... In the top U.S. newspapers... they didn’t even use the word “democracy” in their reports; both simply called participants “anti-government protesters”...
"Given the lack of freedom and access to political participation, and the repression facing protesters, how significant are the distinctions between Iraq’s “democracy” and its “authoritarian” neighbors?... "
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/03-6
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
TRUE COST OF WAR
"... Congress has allotted $1.3 trillion for war spending through fiscal year 2011 just to the Defense Department... the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq... and their ripple effects have cost the United States $3.7 trillion, or more than $12,000 per American... "
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/08/15/120758/true-cost-of-afghan-iraq-wars.html
"... Congress has allotted $1.3 trillion for war spending through fiscal year 2011 just to the Defense Department... the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq... and their ripple effects have cost the United States $3.7 trillion, or more than $12,000 per American... "
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/08/15/120758/true-cost-of-afghan-iraq-wars.html
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
NEW IRAQ A NIGHTMARE FOR WOMEN
"A United Nations report on Iraq says... women's rights levels and standards have gone down. They suffer from widespread violence, especially from domestic violence... There is little legislation to prevent this from occurring and the criminal code in Iraq almost encourages these crimes... The situation is currently getting worse..."
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=56796
"A United Nations report on Iraq says... women's rights levels and standards have gone down. They suffer from widespread violence, especially from domestic violence... There is little legislation to prevent this from occurring and the criminal code in Iraq almost encourages these crimes... The situation is currently getting worse..."
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=56796