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Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell CBE (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist.She spent much of her life exploring and mapping the Middle East, and became highly influential to British imperial policy-making as an Arabist due to her knowledge and contacts built up through extensive travels.
With an estimated population of 22,675,617 women, Iraq is a male dominated society. [32] On International Women's Day, 8 March 2011, a coalition of 17 Iraqi women's rights groups formed the National Network to Combat Violence Against Women in Iraq. [33] Yanar Mohammed at the Die Linke conference in Berlin in 2013
Nasarwasalam, Iraq, January 30, 2005. Iraqi women set out to vote in the first free elections held in Iraq. Security for the polling site was provided by the Iraqi Security Force (ISF) and members of the US Marines Corps.
Naziha Jawdat Ishg al-Dulaimi (Arabic: نزيهة جودت عشق الدليمي; 1923 – 9 October 2007) was an early pioneer of the Iraqi feminist movement. She was a co-founder and the first president of the Iraqi Women's League, [2] the first woman minister in modern Iraq history, and the first woman cabinet minister in the Arab world.
She was the first American female double amputee from the Iraq War. [4] The explosion severely broke her right arm and tore tissue from it, necessitating major surgery to repair it. Duckworth received a Purple Heart [ 36 ] on December 3 and was promoted to the rank of major on December 21 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center , [ 37 ] where she ...
An Iraqi court issued a death sentence against a wife of the late Islamic State leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, for working with the group and detaining Yazidi women in her home, the Iraqi judiciary ...
The death toll in Iraq this year ranges from some 7,900 to 8,700 people so far, making 2013 the most deadly year for the country since 2008, according to IraqBodyCount.org, a U.K.-based website founded in 2003 and run by volunteers to record civilian deaths.
First ladies of Iraq (2 P) H. ... Women's rights in Iraq (3 C, 9 P) Pages in category "History of women in Iraq" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 ...