Aseel Kami – Reuters News – Tues 16 Sept, 2008
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Years of war have left many Iraqi women widowed, illiterate and desperate, and their deteriorating status has made them ripe for exploitation by militants, Iraq’s minister for women’s affairs said.
Nawal al-Samarraie warned of a “disaster” if more was not done to assert women’s rights, also eroded by a rising tide of fundamentalism and sectarianism that has rolled back many of the freedoms Iraqi women once enjoyed.
“This deteriorating status threatens us with disaster unless we find some avenue for besieged women through the rapid education of society,” Samarraie, from the minority Sunni Arab political bloc, said in an interview on Monday. . .
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