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"Baghdad Underground" Helps Iraqi Women Escape Abuse

Posted on Aug 24, 2009, Source: Ms. Magazine

A clandestine network of shelters helps Iraqi women who have been raped, battered or forced into prostitution.

Almost Half of Iraqi Adults Are Unemployed

Posted on Aug 20, 2008, Source: Truthdig

"If you don't have money to pay bribes, you can't get a job," says one mechanical engineer. "I'd drive a garbage truck; I'd do anything,"

Despite U.S. Assurances, Iraqis Are Increasingly Skeptical That Conditions Will Improve

Posted on May 20, 2008, Source: Truthdig

"Under Saddam Hussein that's what they used to tell us too," says a woman who lives in a town that gets only four hours of power a day. "And nothing."

Vets of Iraq, Afghan Wars Surging Into Homeless Shelters

Posted on Aug 8, 2007, Source: Boston Globe

The consequences of war can be seen in the nation's homeless shelters.
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