No One is Safe - Abuses of Women in Iraq's Criminal Justice System

Auteur : Millennia2025

Source : Human Rights Watch

Both men and women suffer from the severe flaws of the criminal justice system. But women suffer a double burden due to their second class status in Iraqi society. According to witness accounts and to information numerous civil society activists and international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) provided to Human Rights Watch, women are frequently targeted not only for crimes they themselves are said to have committed, but to harass male family or tribal members. Furthermore, once they have been detained, and even if they are released unharmed, women are frequently stigmatized by their family or tribe, who perceive them to have been dishonored.

 => Direct link to the 111 pages report:
      http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/iraq0214webwcover.pdf

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