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Iraqi women seeking equality in peace as in war

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“As a nation which suffered oppression, we have waited for years to raise our voice and to hear others. We gained our freedom after the 1991 uprising. Only then did our voices, colors become visible. And we welcome all sorts of races, colors.”

Those are what Dr. Nezaket Hussein of Sulaymaniyah University said over the weekend at the Women Journalists’ Workshop which was organized by the Medialog Platform and the Kurdistan Journalists’ Union in Sulaymaniyah, where female journalists from Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan gathered in order to discuss the media’s role in societal peace, the language of the media, freedom and women in the media.

We invite our users to read the complete article published May 2 2013

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“As a nation which suffered oppression, we have waited for years to raise our voice and to hear others. We gained our freedom after the 1991 uprising. Only then did our voices, colors become visible. And we welcome all sorts of races, colors.”

Those are what Dr. Nezaket Hussein of Sulaymaniyah University said over the weekend at the Women Journalists’ Workshop which was organized by the Medialog Platform and the Kurdistan Journalists’ Union in Sulaymaniyah, where female journalists from Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan gathered in order to discuss the media’s role in societal peace, the language of the media, freedom and women in the media.

We invite our users to read the complete article published May 2 2013

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