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Iraq
Like everything in the country, Iraqi women live between the weight of traditions, the power of clans, with law neglecting of their rights and defence. Where many women are still subjected to physical and psychological violence by their families, with the difficulty of getting accurate statistics of what they are exposed to daily due to the fear of “scandal”.
As a drowned seeking refuge in a saviour, women who are exposed to violence escape to civil society organisations to seek help, but they end up with another violence, and a long way of suffering, this time, outside the country. domestic violence to prostitution networks
With the absence of an actual role to protect women, in addition to the control and power of clans, the mechanism of action of official organisations is not as enough for what women are exposed to in Iraq. Where these organisations have secret shelters for abused women. There are six shelters in Baghdad, with other shelters in the Kurdistan region, where cases of violence against women there rise by 62%.
These shelters work to rehabilitate women through several stages, starting with the psychological side, then trying to involving them in educational and cultural courses. In rare cases women can get a new official identification and they are moving to other regions because their stay inside the country poses a threat to their lives by their families. domestic violence to prostitution networks
And with such humanitarian organisations there was a groups that work outside and inside Iraq to “exploit” abused women who are looking for a way to escape.
Many girls with different ages arrived in Turkey through these “fake organisations”, through illegal ways which deceive women by persuading them to provide a safe shelter, or to migrate outside the country with a job opportunity, and as soon as the girl arrives, she raped and forced to in prostitution networks.
After the process of luring women to escape from their families to begin the stage of physical exploitation, and both stages are through trading in the suffering of women.
Noor Karim, one of the victims, asked to speak under a pseudonym, . said sadly, “There is no way back. here my life started, waiting for the dark future.”
Noor said “I born for a very rich and known family in Baghdad, and I was abused daily by my brothers at the pressure of my mother, who was encouraged them to hit me.”
There is no way back. here my life started, waiting for the dark future
Noor’s life begins to change when she meets a woman via social media. She says, “She claimed to be the owner of a well-known organisation for the protection of women.”
Not long after talking to this woman, “Noor” resorted to this organisation, and she said,