Tag: iraq
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Mobile phones have become a new threat to young women’s safety in Iraq’s northern region, members of parliament and women’s rights campaigners warn. Men are using them to take photos and record audio and video clips of women and girls who are breaking social codes by having sexually explicit conversations or intimate relations with their…
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Saddam execution video re-ignites death penalty debates worldwide
[Originally published here as part of WITNESS‘s collaboration with Global Voices Online] Over the past four months, we’ve tried to feature and contextualise videos we felt should be seen and debated by a wider audience. Today’s featured human rights video is something completely new. You may be one of the millions who have sought it…
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Iraq: Rare testimony of abuse by the Iraqi Security Forces
[Originally published here as part of WITNESS’s collaboration with Global Voices Online] Torture in Iraq, says the UN, is “out of control”, and “worse than it has been in the times of Saddam Hussein”. So it was especially timely for Brian Conley at Alive In Baghdad to e-mail us to say that he had an…
Sameer Padania 