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Iraqi women’s relentless struggle for rights and equality
For 70 years, through times of Ba’athist brutality, to the more recent Isis reign of terror, the IRAQI WOMEN’S LEAGUE has been at the forefront of struggle in Iraq despite its leaders and activists facing great personal danger
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INTERNATIONAL Women’s Day is celebrated in Iraq this year while the majority of women suffer poverty and exploitation, and continue to fight relentlessly against oppression, discrimination, marginalisation, unemployment and illiteracy, for their just rights, emancipation and equality.
It also marks the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the Iraqi Women’s League (IWL), on March 10 1952.
It is now the oldest women’s democratic organisation in Iraq, with a glorious history of struggle and sacrifices in defence of their fundamental rights and as a courageous component of the people’s democratic patriotic movement.
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