Together For a Better Iraq
This creates new problem with moms who can not register their kids because sometimes they are not married, a problem that Iraqi useless politicians should act to fix it.
Source CNN:
CNN's Arwa Damon reports women were often raped by al Qaeda members and forced into marriage in areas they controlled.
http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2011/09/12/damon-rape-al-qaeda.cnn?iref=allsearch
Iraq have been going through this for a while, since the installation of the sanctions in early 1990, this started to happen, but these days it went into higher scale. and now its a major issue in Iraq.
Source: CNN
Fifteen-year-old Zeina's sad journey to prison began two years ago when she says was sold into sex slavery. "My father came and took me to go visit my grandfather in Syria," says Zeina, "and I went with him."
The family trip turned out to be a cover story, and Zeina found herself faced with the most horrific possible reality. She says she was then forcefully taken from Syria to the United Arab Emirates and sold into sexual slavery.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/05/04/iraq.women.prisons/index.html
This is something we grow up hearing about it happening in another countries not Iraq, Its heartbreaking to see Iraq move backword in that sense.
Source BBC:
Human Rights Watch has called on authorities in the autonomous Iraqi region of Kurdistan to ban the practice of female circumcision, also known as female genital mutilation (FGM).
A report issued by the group on Wednesday said the practice was widespread in Iraqi Kurdistan, and was having a harmful effect on the physical and emotional health of many women.
an Iraqi expatriate, can't apply for an Iraqi passport because she's
forty, without a husband, her father is thousands of miles away from
her, under the new order of MOI (Ministry of Interior),she has to be
under custodianship, to be granted a passport, she's not considered an
independent human being just because she is a women, in a system
filled with illiterates who got hired in the last few years because of
their political affiliation not because of their qualification. each
person send her to the other side.
