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What Sanctions, War, Occupation Brought to Iraqi Women: Collapse of Rights

What Sanctions, War, Occupation Brought to Iraqi Women: Collapse of Rights

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Reuters is putting a spotlight on what many rights groups and independent media have been saying for years—the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq has brought systematic destruction to the rights of women and girls in the country.

Thomson Reuters Foundation’s third annual poll on women’s rights in the Arab world released Tuesday puts Iraq nearly dead last—21 out of 22 Arab states—for women’s rights. The rank is based on a survey of 336 gender experts scoring how the countries fared based on their adherence to provisions of the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).

The poll looked at six categories: reproductive rights, violence against women, women in politics, women in the economy, women in society and women in the family.

Now, according to Reuters, Iraq is more dangerous for women than it was under Saddam Hussein’s regime. “Although few miss Saddam’s iron-fisted rule or the wars and sanctions he brought upon Iraq, women have been disproportionately affected by the violence that has blighted the lives of almost all Iraqis.”

Yet the country was “once at the vanguard of women’s rights in the region,” as Reuters reports.

As independent journalist Rania Khalek explained earlier this year:

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Years of devastating sanctions followed by war, occupation and the U.S.-backed government of Nouri al-Maliki brought devastating effects to women in Iraq.

In “Iraqi women lament costs of U.S. invasion,” part of Reuters‘ special coverage with the poll,they report that since the U.S. invasion, 

“If you talk to women in war zones anywhere, they’ll tell you that domestic violence increases in war-time,” Yifat Susskind and Yanar Mohammed wrote at Common Dreams in March. “But in Iraq, violence against women has also been systematic. And unknown to most Americans, it has been orchestrated by some of the very forces that the US boosted to power.”

In 2011, writing “Occupation of Iraq destroys women’s lives,” Serene Assir observed:

Two years later, and Iraqi women tell Reuters that women and girls are still losing.

Baghdad resident and mother of two Sana Majeed told Reuters that in the wake of the 2003 invasion, “Islamist parties started to control Iraq and that was the worst nightmare Iraqi women have ever faced. Religious parties and militia have stolen free life from Iraqi women.”

“Women in Iraq must not quit trying to reclaim their freedom,” Majeed told the news agency. “I think we should keep our voice loud, if not for ourselves, for the sake of our daughters.”

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