A Dangerous Trade--Inst. for War & Peace Reporting, UK (Iraq prostitutes)

[Gloria]

From the new World Media Watch up now at the URL in the sig below;
Tomorrow at Buzzflash.com


3//Institute for War & Peace Reporting, UK ICR No. 153, 23-Nov-05)

http://www.iwpr.net/?p=icr&s=f&o=258189&apc_state=henpicr



A DANGEROUS TRADE

Once protected by Saddam's regime, prostitutes now fear for their lives.



By Basim al-Sharie in Baghdad

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It’s not known how many prostitutes work in Baghdad or how many have been killed or threatened. But prostitutes, community leaders and police reported that prostitution has significantly changed in the capital. Once an open secret, the business is now run as an underground operation.

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A source in the ministry of justice who asked to remain anonymous said the government is not investigating the killing of prostitutes. He said that authorities believe fundamentalist groups and militias are threatening prostitutes but officials are unwilling to confront them about the issue.



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A ministry of labour report released in July estimated that 58 per cent of Iraq's population is female, and that women have had to carry heavy financial burdens as a result. Iraq's male population began declining during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s and has continued due to fighting and terrorism.

Even women from respectable families are turning to prostitution, according to Suad Khalaf, a 30-year-old social worker in Baghdad. "The social structure is crumbling" under war and worsening economic conditions, she said.



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[pretzel4gore]

1. the god fearing bastards who enabled this war by supporting bushco

maybe don't fear god enough...maybe they think god overlooks little things like this (women murdered after being forced by circumstances into prostitution)...too bad the iraqi women all couldn't just lie in the usa mass media, like you know what? the $$$ apparently is very good (peter jennings died with a plus $50 million estate, having never done a lick of honest work in his entire life)