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Iraqi children pay high health cost of war-induced air pollution, study finds
Iraqi children face way more than the news coverage want you to see.
Iraqi children pay high health cost of war-induced air pollution, study finds
Isis has destroyed Iraq’s oldest Christian monastery, satellite images confirm
Another low for what ISIS is capable of doing.
Isis has destroyed Iraq’s oldest Christian monastery, satellite images confirm
Refugees Crises 2003 till now
Iraq refugee crises did not get the media attention because the media did not want to make the population feel guilty about Human suffering. Now the war in the background and people don’t associate the crises with their war support you see way more images. This crises have been on huge scale since 2003, it just got more publicity now. Which is good and sad at the same time
Ja’fari law takes the Iraqi government’s violation of women’s rights to a new level | Haifa Zangana
Iraq may not have many things to be proud for lately but at least the current personal status law, No 188, was issued in 1959 and is considered to be the most protective of women’s rights in the Arab countries. It stipulates the following: the legal age of marriage for both men and women is 18; polygamy is prohibited and taking a second wife is extremely restricted; a Muslim male is allowed to marry a non-Muslim female without conditions or restrictions; and a woman can disobey her husband if he behaves tyrannically and harms her by failing to provide adequate housing or care should she fall ill. But that is not getting well with the pathetic government we have, the new proposed Ja’fari law takes will make Iraq move backward with a new level. Marriage at age nine, legalizing marital rape – this bill breaches UN conventions and is degrading for Iraqi men and women alike.
Ja’fari law takes the Iraqi government’s violation of women’s rights to a new level | Haifa Zangana
Ex-soldier convicted of killing Iraqi family dies in prison
There’s So Much Violence In Iraq The Tragedy Has Become Easy To Ignore
In late November, Prashant Rao, the Baghdad bureau chief for Agence France-Presse, found himself with a terrible, familiar problem. The daily story he had to write on the news in Iraq – a typical one by that country’s standards, full of death and mayhem – contained so many violent incidents that he simply didn’t have room to mention them all.
So he took to Twitter (list of all his tweets that dayhttp://storify.com/prashantrao/violence-in-iraq-november-29-2013 ), Rao laid out each of the individual attacks from that single day. In Abu Ghraib, a roadside bomb at a market killed one and wounded five; in Tikrit, police found the bodies of seven maintenance workers on a soccer field, with their throats slit; in Diyala, a man was shot dead in front of his home; and on and on.
There’s So Much Violence In Iraq The Tragedy Has Become Easy To Ignore
Iraq execution spree under the spotlight
I usually do not post links from ALJazeera , and i think this is understandable as I usually do not agree with their approach or politics, but this is a decent article that show how far Iraq has deviated from the human rights laws we hoped that it has by now.
Iraq: back to the future | Editorial
Is Nouri al-Maliki becoming Iraq’s next dictator and, if he is, does anyone in Washington care? The second half of the question is easy to answer. The Pentagon wanted to keep 8,000 troops in Iraq after withdrawal. But Maliki made it clear there would be no US troops after the agreement expired on 31 December 2011. The state department also planned for an embassy up to 16,000 strong, and a CIA station 700 strong, but the Iraqi strongman made short shrift of a sizeable US civilian presence, by insisting that his office take direct responsibility for approving every US diplomatic visa. Washington could use the soft power of military supply contracts, but is unwilling to do that. Maliki is allowing Iranian overflights to resupply Assad’s embattled regime in Syria. Washington still does not want to know.
Man whose WMD lies led to 100,000 deaths confesses all
I totally understand his reasoning , but the funny thing is that they are trying to make him the bad guy. as if they would of not gone to war if he did not provide that intelligence (or here the lack of it)
From Baghdad To New York 