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[kurd]

I am female teacher in north Iraq. Any women teachers who come to work here shold know the way we females are seen treated in Kurdistan. This has happens many times to girls and older women:

Justice for Sara Jaffar Nimat!

Condemn another hideous stoning of an 11 years old girl in Kurdistan

Sara Jaffar Nimat is an 11-year-old girl from the town of Khanaqin in Iraqi Kurdistan. She was murdered on the 3rd August.

The painful, degrading and horrific killing of Sara is another outrageous crime against young girls and women in Kurdistan. Sara was only in fifth grade at school. Loved by her friends, they played together on the night she was killed.

Sara�s body was found in a nearby empty building. It had been hit by bricks, stones, and then burnt. There is not much information yet about who committed such a barbaric crime against an innocent young girl.

Killings of young girls and women in Kurdistan are rapidly rising and such killings occur even more openly than before. After the murder of Du�a Khalil Aswad, a 17-year-old Yazidi girl stoned to death in public, at least another 40 women have been killed - among them Amina, a 12 year old girl killed by her father, under the pretext that she was �in love with a neighbor�, and Sara an 11-year-old.


We have consistently demanded that the government in Kurdistan must bring to justice those responsible for these terrible murders, but it seems that compromising with tribes and war lords, and neglecting women�s rights are more high up on the agenda of the parties in power than protecting women at risk. Therefore violence against women is now targeting females who are as young as 11 years old.

This is a dangerous situation; our society is not safe for its women. Our streets, homes, and buildings, are all places which murder takes place in them. Women can no longer trust their male relatives; they fear their own fathers, brothers, and husbands. What kind of society is this if women don�t feel safe at any time or place?

[mistral]

This may be out of place on Dave's cafe but kurd is right to point it out. I assume she's Kurdish. This does happen and most Kurds turn a blind eye. It rarely gets a mention in the western media. I heard that women are often on the receiving end of domestic violence. Life can't be easy for female university teachers, local or foreign, when they are confronted with male students who have never been taught by a woman.

[Cleopatra]

[scot47]

Cleo your war with 007 or trapezius seems to have been tranposed here. I assume you wanted to cut and paste something else here .

[Cleopatra]

Scottie to the rescue!

Amended version above, maybe one of the usual suspects from the SAudi board will now be taking up the case of the oppressed Kurdish woman?

[sheikh radlinrol]

[Cleopatra]

Why indeed?

Can't say I've met any Ulsterwomen here, 'wee' or otherwise, but I'm sure you can still add them to your campaign list of unfortunates.

[sheikh radlinrol]

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