Iraqi Women Live Under Threat of Violence
I seem to recall before the Iraq war, I think at the time of the Afghanistan war, that someone wrote that in Iraq women could drive and vote. Was that true? In any event, the lives are not better now.
Iraqi Women Live Under Threat of Violence - Amnesty Int'l
by Jeremy Lovell
February 22, 2005
LONDON (Reuters) - Nearly two years after the U.S.-led invasion, Iraqi women are living under the threat of extreme violence and sexual abuse, the human rights group Amnesty International said Tuesday.
In a report entitled "Iraq -- Decades of Suffering," it said that while the systematic repression under Saddam Hussein had ended, it had been replaced by increased murders and sexual assaults -- including by U.S. forces. Read the rest at: http://tinyurl.com/3r74q
© Virginia Metze
Iraqi Women Live Under Threat of Violence - Amnesty Int'l
by Jeremy Lovell
February 22, 2005
LONDON (Reuters) - Nearly two years after the U.S.-led invasion, Iraqi women are living under the threat of extreme violence and sexual abuse, the human rights group Amnesty International said Tuesday.
In a report entitled "Iraq -- Decades of Suffering," it said that while the systematic repression under Saddam Hussein had ended, it had been replaced by increased murders and sexual assaults -- including by U.S. forces. Read the rest at: http://tinyurl.com/3r74q
© Virginia Metze
Starmail - 24. Feb, 10:15
