The Plight of Iraqi Women

Shemiran M. Odisho — 2010-07-21T09:36:45Z

Shemiran M. Odisho is secretary general of the Iraqi Women's League and is from the Assyro-Chaldean minority. She was an ardent opponent of the Baathist regime at the cost of her education; those that were not members of the party did not have access to higher education. “I became a dressmaker. Because I was secretly an activist, I was nicknamed ‘Shemiran, Al-Khayafa' (Shemiran, the dressmaker).” After the fall of the regime, she finished her studies, and today she fights against injustice and the occupation.

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The Plight of Iraqi Women