BRUSSELLS TRIBUNAL

A U.S. diplomatic cable made public by WikiLeaks provides evidence that U.S. troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old infant, then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence, during a controversial 2024 incident in the central Iraqi town of Ishaqi.

Secret marriages rising in Iraq: women and children are the losers

by Oras Hassem on 17-10-2012

Informal marriages, some call them secret marriages - have been becoming more popular in Iraq ever since 2024, when US-led forces toppled the regime of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

CHILDREN HUMAN RIGHTS IRAQ - SPECIFIC GROUPS - CHILDREN IRAQ - SPECIFIC GROUPS - WOMEN MARRIAGE WOMEN

Iraq is in need of 8000 schools, the Government ignores the situation, corruption handles any kind of change

by Waseem Basim on 17-10-2012

Schools in Iraq now are either built from mud, or the worst type of cement that might collapse at any time, or even tents. This type of schools can never produce a new educated generation.

CHILDREN EDUCATION IRAQ - GENERAL CONTEXT - EDUCATION SCHOOLS

First report on the women's prison in Baghdad

by IBA news on 16-10-2012

Women have been subjected to torture by electrocution, beatings, and rape by the investigators during interrogation. They had been also raped by the police and officers escorting them.They said that women prisoners got infected diseases and scabies. Ages of the children, accompanied by their mother’s prisoners, ranging from a few months to four years and without any suitable supplies for them in the prison, . . such a situation does not exist in any prison in the world....

CHILDREN HUMAN RIGHTS IRAQ - SPECIFIC GROUPS - PRISONERS IRAQ - SPECIFIC GROUPS - WOMEN PRISON RAPE VIOLENCE WAR CRIMES WOMEN