Date: July 25th 2007

:: NEWS & ANALYSIS ::

WOMEN'S RIGHTS ACTIVISTS INCREASINGLY TARGETED BY
MILITANTS
Haifaa Nour, president of the Women's Freedom
Organization, one of the few women's rights organizations
in Iraq, said threatening she has been receiving letters
will not deter her from her job, even if it cost her her
life. However, she acknowledged that for a woman activist
the risks of doing humanitarian work were increasing
daily.

http://electroniciraq.net/news/newsanalysis/


:: AID & DEVELOPMENT::

BASRA DOCTORS STRIKE, DEMAND PROTECTION
Nearly 150 doctors in Basra, Iraq's second largest city
about 600km south of Baghdad, began a three-day strike on
23 July, demanding the government protect them and their
families. According to figures from the Iraqi Health
Ministry released earlier this year, 618 medical
employees, including 132 doctors, as well as medics and
other health care workers, have been killed nationwide
since 2003.

IRAQI REFUGEE VOICES: STORIES OF DESPERATION
AND NEED
Every morning at 8:00 am, Suha departs for her job at a
small cafe in Amman, Jordan, leaving her seven-year-old
son, Yasir, locked inside of their two-room apartment,
alone. Suha and her son fled Iraq and came to Jordan with
no friends, family, or resources. Suha works illegally,
earning only US$140 a month, and acknowledges it's a
struggle to meet their basic needs: 'My salary barely pays
for our rent and food alone. How can I ever pay to send my
son to school?' Read more from a collection of refugee
portraits compiled by Refugees International.

http://electroniciraq.net/news/aiddevelopment/


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