Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Iraqi women without headscarves threatened, attacked, and killed

According to the Women's Rights Association, a Baghdad NGO, since 2003, the number of women in Iraq attacked because they were not wearing headscarves has more than tripled. Between 1999 and March of 2003, there were 22 attacks and one death; since then, there have been 80 attacks and 4 deaths, with no figures are available yet for 2006.

(Continue reading at MoJo Blog)

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