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...Khateeb is a humanitarian worker based in Baghdad, where she works for the non-profit group Iraqi AlAmal Association. A former program coordinator for the U.N. Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), she rallied women to participate in Iraq's first elections and now uses her twelve years of technology experience helping local women learn e-business software...
...succeed I don't know if there is a formula. I think the problem is that people have been pursuing formulas. Both the American government, the American military, the Iraqi politicians, the elected leadership there have been caught up in finding formulas. How many Shi'ites in cabinet? How many Sunnis? Should a Sunni be president? Should a Shi'ite be prime minister? These kinds of sectarian mathematics don't work. They didn't work in Lebanon, they won't work in Iraq. I'm looking for straws in the wind. I'm looking for actual improvements where they...
...Iraq Before 2003 We've been through 13 years of sanctions. We've been through two gulf wars. We had a traditional war with Iran - a lot of casualties. We were barely trying to survive. Being an Iraqi woman, actually trying to have a family - I have three daughters. Just surviving the sanctions...
...becoming an aid worker Iraq civil society has no background before 2003. It was all controlled by government, a totalitarian regime. Iraqis couldn't do any humanitarian work - government does everything. You're not allowed to question anything. If you question it, either you're persecuted or you're an outlaw. After 2003 July, I joined UNIFEM and NGOs started to form in Iraq, women NGOs. They were quite active in thinking of the future, trying to make something. After 2005, it was really difficult, [there were] a lot of humanitarian violations. Networking was completely something...
...these IDPs? They are families who have been driven out by militias in the middle of the night - and Iraqi families invest all their assets in their houses. They leave their houses without taking anything, and if they were very lucky, none of them will get killed or brutally murdered. They go nowhere. Then they will have no food-ration card, they won't have IDs, their children will not be able to attend school. If they are lucky, they will find neighbors or relatives. They lack all kinds of public health services. Many of them...