Iraq: Many women are now head of their households, their husbands and sons having been killed

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http://www.alertnet.org/db/blogs/19216/2007/03/17-115722-1.htm

Amid the daily media reports of suicide bombings, sectarian violence and troop casualties, Iraqi civilians generally get overlooked.

But today the world will be focussing attention on the nearly 4 million people who have been forced to flee their homes since the U.S.-led invasion.

If the number is hard to imagine, then it's a bit like uprooting the population of Paris - twice.

We're now seeing a "migration crisis of epic proportions", according to the International Rescue Committee, a relief agency which works with refugees.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. K&R for keeping us aware. ThanksNNOLHI.

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2. wow. makes sense

And to be the head of a household in a place where you must be escorted everywhere all of the time by a man must be close to impossible. To have all of the responsibilities without safety or rights? What a nightmare for so many suffering in silence. So sad.

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3. How long before Moran In Chief claims this is a sign of the "emancipation of women"

in Iraq :eyes:

"Ah think it is a good sign and a sign of progress that women folks is duh heads of households, which would nut have been possible during Saddam's reign of terror"...

K&R