[news] How Iraq Became a Prison for Women

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

by Daphne Bramham - Vancouver Sun 

>From the 1960s through most of Saddam Hussein's regime, Iraqi women were among the most liberated and liberal of all Muslim women. Girls went to school, women worked, wore what they chose, drove cars, ran for office and spoke their minds...Yet far from restoring women's rights, on the Americans' watch, Iraq has become a prison for women.  


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