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A Morning with the Garbage Pickers of Kut
By Mohammed Al-Zaidi Whole families descend upon a landfill south of the city before dawn, waiting for the rubbish from which they make a living. Every day at dawn, local woman Um Javad – she only wishes to give this name – is up and walking around the alleys of the central Iraqi city…
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Personal experiences: A man and four girls in Mosul
The lesson strangled me, because the child is a female and not a male. My mother, who is still suffering from the pains of childbirth, stared at me with her eyes and looked ashamed because she did not give birth to an additional brother to support me. This is the result of a womb of…
