Women's summit provides glimpses of challenges of life during war
NEW YORK (AP) | 27 March 2006

One spoke of pregnant women afraid to leave hospitals in Iraq for fear of being killed. Another described how children do not invite friends to birthday parties because the streets in Iraq are so dangerous, no one would dare come.

The accounts of life in a country ravaged by violence came from Iraqi women
on the first day of a two-day summit to raise awareness of the war's
consequences and develop recommendations for peace.

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Iraq Women's Report Calls Violence Enemy No. 1
06/08/06

Violence against civilians and widespread infrastructure damage are making it difficult for Iraqi women to agree about the U.S. occupation or concentrate on pushing for a role in the reconstruction process.

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