Post Saddam Iraq sees dramatic rise in sex–trafficking

IDP - Internally Displaced Persons family suffer from poverty in the town of Turaq, southern Iraq

Jessica Sarhan – WNN Breaking (WNN) LONDON: On the 9th November, Westminster-based NGO called SCEME -  Social Change through Education in the Middle East issued a report in the UK Parliament House of Lords that details the increasing number of Iraqi women being trafficked since the beginning of the 2003 Iraq invasion. The fall of [...]

Iraq women attacked in push for human rights and freedom

Iraqi women protesters at Tahrir Square Baghdad June 10, 2011

Marcia G. Yerman –  WNN Breaking Although the focus of many media reports has been on Egypt’s Tahrir Square, there is another Tahrir Square that demands our attention—the one in Baghdad. On Friday, June 10, members of the Organisation of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI) were attacked and sexually molested as they gathered there to [...]

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