Iraqi women 'in crisis'

[babylonsister]

Iraqi women 'lack basic services'


Women in Iraq still lack security and basic services, despite an overall drop in violence six years after the US-led invasion, aid agency Oxfam says.

Reporting on a survey of about 1,700 women in five provinces taken last year, Oxfam described their plight as a "silent emergency".

It suggested more than half the women had suffered from violence.

A quarter did not have daily access to water supplies, and more than three-quarters were not getting pensions.

Last month, Iraq's minister for women resigned, saying the government was not taking the plight of women seriously.

Oxfam said: "Iraqi women are suffering a silent emergency', trapped in a downward spiral of poverty, desperation and personal insecurity despite an overall decrease in violence in the country."

more...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7930890.stm

[Idealism]

1. Bush left such a wonderful legacy. n/t

[peacetalksforall]

2. Champion of women. As are Dick and Donald.

[terisan]

3. Yes, this was caused by Bush/Cheney et al. nt