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Prior to the arrival of forces in Iraq in 1991, Iraqi women were free to wear whatever they liked and go wherever they chose. [107]: 105–107 The Iraqi constitution of 1970 gave women equality and liberty in the Muslim world, but since the invasion, women's rights have fallen to the lowest in Iraqi history. [107]: 105–107
Iraq is a country of a wide and varied heritage, home to religious groups such as Muslims, Christians, Jews, Mandaaeans, Yazidis, and ethnic groups such as Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen who have contributed to the wide spectrum of Iraqi Culture. Many markets reflect local culture and economy such as the famous Al-Safafeer market in Baghdad which is ...
Hero is also a women's right activist promoting music and art. She used the Kurdsat TV channel to launch multiple women awareness projects. [citation needed] She is the director of the Kurdistan Save the Children (KSC) a charity organisation that aims to provide food, shelter and education for thousands of displaced orphans. [1]
UN groups say at least 40,000 members of the Yazidi sect, many of them women and children, took refuge in nine locations on Mount Sinjar, a craggy, 1,400 m (4,600 ft) high ridge identified in local legend as the final resting place of Noah's Ark, facing slaughter at the hands of jihadists surrounding them below if they fled, or death by ...
Murad was born in the village of Kocho in the Sinjar District, Iraq, populated mostly by Yazidi people. [10] [11] Her family, of the Yazidi minority, were farmers. [12] Murad is the youngest of 11 children, not including her four older half siblings. Murad's father married her mother after the death of his first wife, with whom he had four ...
Culture channel Arte France is set to co-produce Léonard Cohen‘s debut animated feature “Flavors of Iraq,” a project presented at this week’s Cartoon Movie and produced by France’s Nova ...
[1] [4] [5] Maman founded the Liberation of Christian and Yazidi Children of Iraq in June 2015. [6] Maman often visited Morocco and Iraq to purchase vintage cars to bring them back for his classic car dealership based in Montreal. [7] During this time, he made contacts that would go on to help build his network of brokers within the ISIS ...
Iraq urged countries on Monday to repatriate their citizens from a sprawling camp in Syria housing tens of thousands linked to the extremist Islamic State group, saying it has become a “source ...