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Obama Draws Fire for ‘Chaining’ Social Security

By Sharon Johnson ● Crime & Law ● July 14, 2011

As the deadline to avert a U.S. debt default looms, Obama is proposing lowering cost-of-living increases for Social Security. Women’s advocates cry foul, saying it’s not a “shared sacrifice” and unfairly punishes the elderly.

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Iraqi Refugee Urged to Trade Sex for Food, Cash

By Dominique Soguel ● Politics ● November 16, 2010

An Iraqi refugee woman in Syria cannot, by law, take local work. But her U.N. assistance check doesn’t cover living costs and she doesn’t want a “pleasure marriage” to help her survive. Her children are so unhappy she’s ready to give them up.

In Syria, Iraqi Refugee Daughters Risk Being Sold

By Dominique Soguel ● Politics ● October 11, 2010

Iraqi women who have fled to Syria to escape the U.S.-led war face another form of violence: sales to brothels by male relatives desperate for money. Damascus is escalating its legal response to trafficking, but the risks remain high.

Veteran Domestic Violence Remains Camouflaged

By Stacy Bannerman ● Politics ● April 13, 2009

Oprah has called the alleged abuse of a U.S. pop star a “teachable moment.” Stacy Bannerman, whose husband is deployed in Iraq, says the same national instruction is also needed about veteran domestic violence and post-traumatic stress syndrome.

Iraqi Reporters Run Risks to Cover Women’s Angle

By Dominique Soguel ● Politics ● November 1, 2007

Six women from McClatchy’s Baghdad bureau took on the high-risk assignment of covering the war. Sometimes working in secrecy, they reported the sweeping changes facing their homeland and worked to put women’s stories on the record.

Iraqi Women’s Freedom Vanishing: Read All About It

By Sheila Gibbons ● Commentary ● April 4, 2007

War coverage has begun to pay more attention to the vanishing freedoms of Iraqi women, says Sheila Gibbons. But there’s still not nearly enough coverage of this outrage.

Iraq Refugee Crisis Engulfs Women Silenced by Rape

By Rasha Elass ● Crime & Law ● April 1, 2007

An Iraqi woman who survived a rape before she and her family moved to Lebanon is finding a way to talk about her ordeal. But aid workers say that in the major Iraqi refugee communities of Syria and Jordan this war wound goes unmentioned.

Iraqi Women’s Death Sentences Spur European Outcry

By Cynthia L. Cooper ● Crime & Law ● March 9, 2007

Death sentences imposed on three Iraqi women–some of them mothers with young children–have spurred international concerns about the conduct of their trials and the abrogation of international prohibitions against the death penalty for new mothers.

Garrels Tells War Stories and Survives Them

By Jennifer Thurston ● Arts & Culture ● December 1, 2006

NPR’s Anne Garrels was the voice of Iraq during the 2003 invasion and her reports from the war zone have been a highlight of the network’s coverage. Now she sees only bad options in Iraq but intends to cover the country as long as possible.

Iraqis Push to Prosecute Rape in War Crime Trials

By Elizabeth Dwoskin ● Crime & Law ● June 26, 2006

Women are lobbying the Iraqi tribunal–the court trying the war crimes of Saddam Hussein’s Baathist regime–to prosecute crimes against women. Iraqi women involved in the effort are concealing their identities out of fear of retribution.