Iraq: Women are a vital and essential energy that contributes to the ongoing popular demonstrations




Iraqi women, whether they are homemakers, employees, or students, have played a fundamental role in the popular movement that has been taking place since its inception on 01 October 2020. Women human rights defenders, doctors or paramedic volunteers in medical detachment teams, civil society activists, and peaceful demonstrators advancing on the front lines in order to support other protesters are being exposed to all kinds of danger, including being shot at with live bullets, shotgun pellets, sound bombs, and tear gas canisters. Iraqi women are being subjected to beatings, humiliating searches, detention, torture, and even murder, and despite this they did not retreat but occupied the sit-in areas with their activities and their chants of hope to have a prosperous homeland that accommodates everyone.


Iraqi women, whether they are homemakers, employees, or students, have played a fundamental role in the popular movement that has been taking place since its inception on 01 October 2020. Women human rights defenders, doctors or paramedic volunteers in medical detachment teams, civil society activists, and peaceful demonstrators advancing on the front lines in order to support other protesters are being exposed to all kinds of danger, including being shot at with live bullets, shotgun pellets, sound bombs, and tear gas canisters. Iraqi women are being subjected to beatings, humiliating searches, detention, torture, and even murder, and despite this they did not retreat but occupied the sit-in areas with their activities and their chants of hope to have a prosperous homeland that accommodates everyone.


 
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PM:12:02:30/01/2020




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