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Jun 16 2013
Interview with Houzan Mahmoud: Iraq’s desperate economic and security situation is leading to the trafficking of hundreds of Iraqi women into prostitution and sexual slavery. Rising numbers of Iraqi women are being sold into sexual slavery every year because of the waning economy and dire security situation.
Permanent link to this article: http://www.owfi.info/EN/article/iraqi-women-forced-into-sexual-slavery/
Jun 15 2013
Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) — Wedad can’t bear to live this way much longer. Disgusted by the work, she can hardly stand it. Wedad is a prostitute in Iraq. Sectarian violence claimed the life of her husband three years ago. Unable to rely on her family, Wedad tried getting a job to support her three young …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.owfi.info/EN/article/war-forces-iraqi-mom-into-prostitution/
Jun 10 2013
Ravaged by rights groups and upbraided by the U.S. for failing to take measures against human trafficking, the Iraqi government has been quietly working on a draft law to tackle the scourge. Baghdad was prodded into action late last year, after the release of the U.S. State Department’s “Trafficking in Persons Report,” according to Human …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.owfi.info/EN/article/will-iraq-crack-down-on-sex-trafficking/
Jun 09 2013
She goes by Hinda, but that’s not her real name. That’s what she’s called by the many Iraqi sex traffickers and pimps who contact her several times a week from across the country. They think she is one of them, a peddler of sexual slaves. Little do they know that the stocky auburn-haired woman is …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.owfi.info/EN/article/iraqs-unspeakable-crime-mothers-pimping-daughters/
Jun 05 2013
On a bullet-scarred side street in Baghdad’s downtown, where U.S. Marines famously helped tear down the statue of Saddam Hussein in April of 2003, an inconspicuous entryway tucked between a steel-shuttered shop and a rickety candy stall leads to a flight of steep concrete stairs. Rusted water pipes run precariously over and across the poorly …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.owfi.info/EN/article/baghdad-underground-a-railroad-of-sorts-helps-iraqi-women-escape-servitude-abuse-and-even-death/
Jun 02 2013
BY DOUG IRELAND: As the murder campaign targeting Iraqi gays intensifies, a leading Arabic television network last week revealed the use of a horrifying new form of lethal torture against Iraqi gay men – anti-gay Shiite death squads are sealing their anuses with a powerful glue, then inducing diarrhea, which leads to a painful and …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.owfi.info/EN/article/iraqi-gays-face-gruesome-torture-murder-technique/
Jun 01 2013
In the memory of Du’a Khalil Aswad and in condemnation of the flogging in public of a 17 year old girl in Pakistan. Du’a Khalil Aswad, a sweet 17 year old girl from Iraqi Kurdistan was publicly stoned to death in the town of Bashiqa before 1000 men. None of them did anything to stop …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.owfi.info/EN/article/religious-superstitions-laws-and-customs-are-a-disgrace-of-the-21st-century/
May 26 2013
After two years of fact-finding and months of lobbying over local and regional televisions, newspapers, websites and radios, OWFI’s activism receive the first results: the legislators have forwadrded a draft law against trafficking of women and girls.
Permanent link to this article: http://www.owfi.info/EN/activities/owfi-pressures-the-legislators-into-a-draft-law-against-trafficking-of-women-and-girls/
May 22 2013
After seven years of occupation, women in Iraq still suffer from insecurity and outrageous misogynist practices of the Islamist and nationalist ruling militias. The multiplying anti-women media of the ruling militias attempt to abort all our modern achievements for women’s rights. Their media shows women who veil their presence from the society with ragged historic …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.owfi.info/EN/article/in-march-8-of-2009-freedom-and-equality-remain-the-aim-of-our-struggles/
May 20 2013
Three Activists to Share 2008 Gruber International Women’s Rights Prize for Advancing Gender Equality July 8, 2008, New York, New York – The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation today announced that it will award the 2008 Women’s Rights Prize to three courageous activists who, at great risk to their own safety, have led successful efforts …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.owfi.info/EN/press-release/2008-gruber-womens-rights-prize-press-release/
May 18 2013
Condemn the killings of women in Basra and Umara. he southern cities of Iraq which are totally under the grip of Islamist parties have turned into no-woman zones. Female physical appearance is not acceptable in the streets, educational institutions, or at work places. Although veiled and passive, death awaits women around street corners, in the …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.owfi.info/EN/article/end-the-genocide-on-women-of-iraq/
May 14 2013
Condemn another hideous stoning of an 11 years old girl in Kurdistan: Sara Jaffar Nimat is an 11-year-old girl from the town of Khanaqin in Iraqi Kurdistan. She was murdered on the 3rd August.
Permanent link to this article: http://www.owfi.info/EN/article/justice-for-sara-jaffar-nimat/
May 12 2013
The Eleanor Roosevelt Global Women’s Rights award was presented to Yanar Mohammed, the president of OWFI in recognition of her endeavors in voicing Iraqi women and protecting their rights in the post-war Iraq.
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May 10 2013
By Houzan Mahmoud, from the Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq: What the brutal ‘honour killing’ of a girl in Iraq’s Kurdistan province shows about the country’s headlong descent into sectarian violence. Houzan Mahmoud, an Iraqi Kurd who lives in Britain, is the overseas representative of the Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq and initiator …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.owfi.info/EN/article/killing-women-destroying-iraq/