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Iraqi Women Back In The Driver’s Seat
As Baghdad security improves, more women are plucking up the courage to drive around the capital’s once treacherous roads. By Duraed Salman in Baghdad Samira Hussein, 36, walks out of the supermarket and slips behind the wheel of her car in the Karrada Maryam area of Baghdad near the heavily protected Green Zone. It is a scene that is played out day after day in countries all around the world, but in Iraq, even simple tasks for women such as running errands and driving are deeply ... more
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Uzbekistan Again Recognised as 'Failed State'
A News Briefing Central Asia Report Uzbekistan’s high position in a new list of so-called failed states can be attributed to a lack of democracy and the slow pace of economic development, say local observers. In late July, the influential American magazine Foreign Policy, and the research centre The Fund for Peace published their annual rating of failed states for 2008. Uzbekistan – which is still considered the most unstable of Central Asian countries – has improved ... more
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Kirkuk Must Remain United
IWPR 3 weeks agoRecent violence underlines importance of province’s communities reaching an accord over its future. By Samah Samad in Kirkuk As soon as I saw the demonstration, I knew that there would be trouble. Hundreds of thousands of people, most of them Kurds, had gathered outside of the provincial council offices in Kirkuk on July 28 to protest a parliamentary decision that set aside an equal number of... more
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