On 30 September, 11-year-old Muntadar was snatched off the streets of Baghdad. The family never saw him alive again.“Look at the place where they kept him,” his father Yussef says, pointing to a poor quality photograph sent to him by the...
Topics: Children, Iraqis Delima

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Under Saddam Hussein, despite the brutality of his regime towards so many of Iraq’s people, war widows were looked after by the state. Now, they are mostly hidden and vulnerable. It’s been called Iraq’s cultural time bomb.Close to the...
Topics: Iraqis Delima, Women

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Young Iraqi women are dressing more liberally now than three years ago during the height of the war. Both muslim and Christian women can now be seen not wearing a hijab in public. Some muslim women who used to wear an abaya, an ankle-length black cloak...
Topics: Fasion, News, Photos

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A report that shed the light on situation of human rights in Iraq.The report says members of the Mehdi Army militia group is spearheading the campaign, but police are also accused – even though homosexuality is legal.Witnesses say vigilante groups.
Topics: Iraqis Delima

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Not long after the Iraq War began in 2003, Uday al-Ghanimi was accosted by several men outside the American military base where he managed a convenience store. They accused him of abetting the Americans, and one fired a pistol at his head.Now, after 24...
Topics: Iraqis Delima, Refugees

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