 | | In a country ill-equipped to meet the needs of the growing influx, many Iraqi woman refuges - willingly or otherwise - turn to prostitution to make ends meet.
"From what I’ve seen, 70 percent to 80 percent of the girls working this business in Damascus today are Iraqis", Abeer, a 23-year-old Baghdadi working in a Damascus nightclub, told The New York Times on Tuesday, May 29.
"The rents here in Syria are too expensive for their families. If they go back to Iraq they’ll be slaughtered, and this is the only work available." MORE
http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1180421148504&pagename=Zone-English-News/NWELayout
Please also see:
Women in Prison
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m33265&hd=&size=1&l=e
Why the Iraq War was worth it; Truth About Iraqis
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m33246&hd=&size=1&l=e
IRAQ:
From Worse to Worst?
Mohammed A. Salih
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=37939
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