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  • Women Rights Minister in Iraq do not believe in gender equality, My guess that was a job requirement

    • 26 Jan 2012
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    in an Arabic Interview with her she said that she get her Husband approval for everything becauseshe beleive she is less than him. Added to that she said that she visited some christian neighborhood  because she heard that the suicide rate in that area was high as if Muslim women in Iraq are living in luxury. I wonder what she was smoking during that interview,  maybe what her husband was smoking since have been doing all the thinking for her. 

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    Source: Niqas.com

    New guidelines on how the Iraqi government’s female employees should dress have caused a furore. The conservative Ministry of Women’s affairs says it is protecting female dignity while women’s rights advocates say it’s an attack on personal freedoms.

     

    The guidelines had already been decided on late last year but when a local newspaper published details of exactly how the Iraqi government’s female employees should be dressing, controversy was bound to ensue.

     

    The recommendations made by the Higher National Committee for the Advancement of Iraqi Women*, which is chaired by the federal Minister for Women’s Affairs, Ibtihal al-Zaidi, had been decided upon in September 2011. However details were only revealed by the Baghdad daily, Al Mada, a few days ago.

    http://www.niqash.org/articles/?id=2981

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  • After 20 Years, An Iraqi Returns To A Changed Land

    • 19 Jan 2012
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    I can not add anything more to her beautiful words

    Source NPR:

    "I think the spirit of Baghdad will never change, no matter what. The Baghdad and Iraqi people will endure, but visually, I think the city's just completely destroyed. It used to be a beautiful city, and I'm searching really hard to find its beauty." Aseel Albanna

     

    http://www.npr.org/2012/01/19/145397206/after-20-years-an-iraqi-returns-to-a-changed-land

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  • Iraq Kew flora project revived after 25 years on hold

    • 13 Jan 2012
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    Some nice  news to read about Iraq 

     

    Source: BBC

    A project to catalogue every plant species in Iraq has been restarted, 25 years after it was put on hold because of the political situation in the country.

    Experts from Iraq are once again working with botanists at Kew Gardens in London to finish the reference work Flora of Iraq, the first volume of which was published in 1966.

    There are estimated to be around 3,500 plant species in the country but many are not comprehensively documented.

    The project aims to complete the final three of nine planned volumes. The most recent was published in 1985.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16317974

     

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