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IAU Report - The Inter-agency Information and Analysis Unit (IAU) is a group composed of analytical staff members from the different participating UN agencies and NGOs in Iraq. The IAU was formed in early 2008 to improve the effectiveness of programming, advocacy, policy and coordination of the international response in Iraq and, therefore, the impact of the humanitarian and development response through the strategic use of information.

Direct Link to Full Report: GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE IN IRAQ

http://www.ncciraq.org/IMG/doc_Iraq_Gender_Report_Final_020608.doc

Website Link - NGO Coordination Committee in Iraq:

http://www.ncciraq.org/spip.php?article2591

Gender-based Violence in Iraq

The effects of violence

– real and perceived –

on the lives of women, girls, men and boys in Iraq

IRIN

Women in Iraq today seem driven not by the expectation of improving their status but by the determination to hold on to what rights they have in the face of growing insecurity, violence, religious fundamentalism and economic hardship… [Women] have largely been unable to capitalize on this position to improve women’s daily lives due to a lack of political will to place women in positions of leadership or to include them in fundamental decision making processes.

[1][1]The Status of Women in Iraq: Update to the Assessment of Iraq’s De Jure and De Facto Compliance with International Legal Standards, American Bar Association and Iraq Legal Development Project, Dec. 2006: p. 1

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