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Al Jazeera Film - Upload February 8,
2012
Iraq - Domestic Violence on the Rise
- Film
The
UN estimates that one in five women in Iraq suffer from domestic abuse, in a
society where a woman leaving her husband for any reason is considered grounds
for punishment. One rights group says cases of abuse appear to be on the rise
since the fall of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein nearly nine years ago. But
even for women who do manage to escape their abuse, there are few places in the
country they can go to seek refugee.
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