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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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Nasreen Abdul Raa’uf … the Lady who defeated bullets with struggle and the challenge
The second day of March 2007 was not a normal day in the life of Nisreen Abdul Raa'uf. On that day, she lost her husband, the famous lawyer Jaishi al-Amir, when unknown gunmen killed her husband with firing squad in the downtown of Kut city with bullets and they fled the scene. The pain was…
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Personal Experiences…My Story with the Gypsies
I have worked a lot in the field of advocacy campaigns and humanitarian work, but I did not feel the fruit of all this until 2016 when a campaign was launched entitled "the Gypsy is human" and advocating for the rights of the gypsy. Despite my awareness of the danger of going into this area,…
