Women’s rights in Iraq

Free­lance jour­nal­ist Thierry Robin has entered Iraq to cover the plight of women in post-war Iraqi soci­ety. She He wrote to me the following:

I’m a free­lance reporter and a mem­ber of the ABIR (Asso­ci­a­tion for the Ben­e­fit of the Iraqi Women and their Rel­a­tives) asso­ci­a­tion. I will go on a trip to Iraq from 8^th to 22^nd of Octo­ber and I will blog from Bagh­dad about women’s rights (in French and in Eng­lish). I thought you could be inter­ested in this ini­tia­tive and that’s why I’m con­tact­ing you. With other mem­bers of ABIR, we will bring mate­r­ial to a dis­pen­sary and an orphan­age. We will also meet Hanaa Edward from the local NGO “Al Amal” and other per­sons involved in the pro­mo­tion of women’s rights in Iraq. It will be an oppor­tu­nity for me to make sev­eral reports with the aim of catch­ing people’s atten­tion about the appalling fate of Iraqi women and girls: Sex­ual vio­lences, abduc­tions and mur­ders are wide­spread, pre­vent­ing the women from tak­ing part in the post­war society.

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p>Her His blog is up, and the Eng­lish ver­sion is at the bot­tom of the post­ings. Her His report­ing on the needs of the sick and the dying in the woe­fully under-equipped Bagh­dad hos­pi­tals are heart­break­ing. And — big sur­prise — the vio­lence that the Bush admin­is­tra­tion says is get­ting too much atten­tion is omnipresent. UPDATE Thank to my non-existent French skills, and the sharp eyes of two of my read­ers, David Frazer and Amy N., I found out that Thierry is a man, not a woman. My apolo­gies for the screw-up. Thanks for the cor­rec­tion, guys!

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