Open AccessWomen and War
Author(s) -
Diana Moukalled
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
al-raida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2226-4841
pISSN - 0259-9953
DOI - 10.32380/alrj.v0i0.388
Subject(s) - interim , feeling , shock (circulatory) , front (military) , political science , psychology , law , medicine , social psychology , engineering , mechanical engineering
“ Fearful for their safety and unnerved by last weekend's attack on a high-ranking female official, Iraqi women activists are retreating from the public sphere and choosing to keep their work low-profile …They do not want to be featured because they have seen what has happened to Aqila Hashimi." This was how Noeleen Heyzer, executive director of the UN Development Fund for Women, described how Iraqi women felt after the murder of Aqila Hashemi, a member of the interim governing council. Unidentified armed men had shot at Hashemi in September, while she was standing in front of her house in Baghdad, and she had died a few days later from her wounds. Hashemi’s murder came as a shock to Iraqi women, and heightened their feeling that they were direct targets in this war.